In 1966 Mao Zedong decided he needed to reassert his control over the Chinese Communist Party and destroy his increasingly powerful enemies within the party apparatus. He chose the mechanism of the Cultural Revolution – unleashing students and the Red Guards to weed out counter-revolutionary elements. The resulting chaos crippled China but solidified Mao’s authority.
Xi suppresses and starves his own people (much like his predecessor Mao).
Xi distributes largesse to foreigners to compromise them and ensure their obedience (e.g, the Bidens, Eric Swalwell, various universities and media companies and, likely, Mitch McConnell).
Deprivation and Largesse. Both employed to consolidate power. Totalitarian Yin and Yang?
Totalitarian Yin and Yang?
Xi suppresses and starves his own people (much like his predecessor Mao).
Xi distributes largesse to foreigners to compromise them and ensure their obedience (e.g, the Bidens, Eric Swalwell, various universities and media companies and, likely, Mitch McConnell).
Deprivation and Largesse. Both employed to consolidate power. Totalitarian Yin and Yang?