6/28/2023 0 Comments Rebecca karl mao![]() ![]() China today is also not communist in any genuine sense of that term, even though the Communist Party presides over the country with an increasingly iron grip. My premise in the following comments: China today is not Maoist, and Xi is not Mao redux. In a less charitable light, they are driven by ideological fealty to some of the most outdated and frankly racist aspects of Cold War Western anticommunism. ![]() In a charitable light, such assertions stem from a broad misunderstanding of the logics of contemporary China and its role in the world today. That President Xi Jinping is a would-be Mao Zedong or that China is facing a “new Cultural Revolution” are examples of this laziness. This article is part of a forum, “ A New Cold War?” published in our spring issue on China.Ĭommentary on China these days often presents lazy thinking that leads to some ridiculous historical statements. Painted portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong at a market in Beijing (AFP Photo/Greg Baker via Getty Images) Mao and Xi’s historical projects couldn’t be more different, and it is high time to move beyond the bad history that conflates them. ![]()
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