'In 1980, writing the last paragraph of the last chapter of
Coming Alive: China After Mao, I declared that China was moving “from totalitarian tyranny to a system more humane, part of a struggle by this nation to free itself from a straitjacket woven of feudalism, Marxism-Leninism, and twentieth-century technology.” In 2020, 40 years later, in
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom, I describe a China firmly in the grip of totalitarian tyranny. In the years between, there were periods of loosening. But since Xi Jinping assumed the leadership of the Communist Party in 2012, he has progressively tightened the drawstrings the Party first imposed on China in 1949, cinching them closed with the technology of the 21st century.
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The U.S. has made an excellent start through legislation that will deny access to the U.S. capital markets to companies that fail to disclose to investors financial information required by law. It will deny access to U.S. technology for many companies that are linked to the Chinese military and those that employ forced labor in Xinjiang. The Senate’s bipartisan approval in late June of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act showed America’s resolve to fully meet the challenge from the Chinese Communist Party. The EU must now make a start by definitively abandoning ratification of its Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China.
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..to save China—and themselves—from catastrophe, they must remove Xi and end the dictatorship that he is determined to defend. But their will and capacity to do so depend crucially on how liberal democracies act.'
- Roger Garside,
‘China’s Search for a Modern Identity Has Entered a New and Perilous Phase’, September 23, 2021
Context'Americans are too naïve .. the CCP regime has always been a totalitarian, one-party dictatorship .. is the greatest threat to American security and world peace, and the CCP regime has no moral compass.' - Cai Xia