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2/ The Bolshevik message of "world revolution" failed in Iran, India and Japan, but was successful in China, which was caught in a seemingly endless war among warlords.

— Indo-Pacific News – Geo-Politics & Defense News (@IndoPac_Info) July 4, 2021

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Gatestone Institute

China: A Colossus with a Foot of Clay

by Amir Taheri
July 4, 2021 at 4:30 am

• To start with the CCP has been an instrument for ruthless repression ever since it seized full power in 1949. By best estimates… the many atrocities it led have claimed at least 80 million lives.
• Decades of misguided policies in Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia have surpassed the worst cases of ethnic repression recorded under successive dynasties.
• The CCP started with a handful of self-loathing bourgeois intellectuals who sought power by appealing to a peasantry they hardly knew. A century later, it is led by another handful of self-adulating intellectuals who maintain themselves in power with the support of a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs they find harder and harder to control.
• The CCP may be proud of its economic success after Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, but it celebrates its centenary with “re-education camps” in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), crackdown in Hong Kong and childish but dangerous imperial gesticulations in neighboring seas.
• Happy birthday!

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