Posted on 04/22/2023 4:47:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Mao's Legacy By John Horvat II The book China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower is a chronicle of China’s rise to world power. Award-winning Dutch author Frank Dikötter is a China expert who bases his research on access to government documents and what he witnessed. His story is compelling because he has no agenda beyond trying to explain what he observed.
Four decades after Mao Zedong’s death, the communist nation went from the 126th largest economy to the second. Western optimists credit a growing market economy and free trade for this transformation. However, the author challenges the “economic miracle” narrative of China after Mao.
Beyond the glitter of the nation’s shining metropolises and industrial base lies an immense system of contradictions, illusions, corruption, shadow banking, and political intrigue. Extreme wealth exists beside abject poverty. The plight of the poor Chinese people remains dire in the face of a political program that only serves the Communist Party and its leaders. If there is any miracle, it is that China still survives.
Dikötter traces this darker and more chaotic narrative. While the players, facts and policies constantly change, one thing stands out. The Chinese Communist Party is amazingly consistent in its four-decade march to ever more socialism -- not a market economy.
The book details, almost to excess, the power struggles and brutality of this march to keep China communist. However, one of the work’s great merits is to point out at least four CCP consistencies among many.
What We Consistently Don’t Know
The first consistency is the lack of data about what is happening in China.
China is a mystery where the only rule is that nobody knows anything about China... including the Chinese government. Given the proliferation of false statistics, there is no way to calculate...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One thing we know about communism is that it is mainly built on lies.
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Mao’s legacy? Just look at Hunter...and The Big Guy.
There’s that number againXi Jinping is hiring 87,000 agriculture police officers, and they're coming for Chinese farmers
Farmers raising chickens in front and backyards is strictly forbidden. https://t.co/HznI3ifM8I pic.twitter.com/zMiVGB4jQ1— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) April 21, 2023
Xi Jinping is the head of the biggest illegal drug cartel in the world pic.twitter.com/oCy0Xet1fV— Rapid Dragon USA🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@RapidDragonUSA) April 22, 2023
It is Time for Donald Trump
CCP trying to curtail Avian Flu
True he was well on the way of doing so aside from the rigging the democrat party had enough fools with blinders on to see the light let Biden & Co. take over.
They just made China much stringer and harder to control.
The democrats and the WEF are trying to turn America into a communist run country.
8 more years. It is time to rescind the amendment to stop Democrat FDR. I want Trump and whomever he picks for 24 years. Vivek Ramsawaney, RFK jr, Rand Paul, MGT or anyone with balls and ideals of steel.
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Xi Jinping is hiring 87,000 agriculture police officers, and they’re coming for Chinese farmers ...
Say, didn’t Joe want to hire 80,000 new IRS agents...
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