Kevin Rudd
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I'm a bit like you.
I'm somewhat skeptical about both these propositions.
But when you describe and said just before, this is the way they think, that history has its own force, that it is moving, and you can make it move more rapidly through the agency of a Leninist party, that is precisely what they think.
and would be analytically derelict if we did not explain that to others as saying this underpins their ultimate analysis of where the rest of us fit in the world and where they think they are taking China today.
They call it scientific socialism.
I argue in the book that simultaneously to these shifts to the Marxist and Leninist left, there's been a shift to the nationalist right.
by which I mean a permanent and growing appeal to China's own inherent nationalism, anchored in its civilizational achievements in the past, anchored in we've been badly done by by the rest of the world during the hundred years of foreign humiliation from the opium wars through the end of the war with Japan in 1945.
And now we're on this trajectory to make China once again a global great power and the global superpower.
And be proud about that.
Be super proud about that.
So you have this turbo charge of history in the nation, the nation now being the vessel or the vehicle through which this great ideological enterprise of Marxism-Leninism is therefore realized into the future.
and will become the vehicle through which that is then taken into the world.
I think Xi's response to the dilemma of national control is at two or three levels.
One, his first impulse is always ideological.
Remember the analogy with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
We just need to get these kids to read more Xi Jinping thought, and that'll brighten up their day.
In my view, not an enormous recipe for success, but that's his first impulse, double down on ideology and double down on ideological propaganda.
And there's the whole view that they can produce a whole new generation of what they call little pinks, that is little reds, xiao fen hong, who will capture this vision and transcend them into the future world.
The second response to the challenges of national control, political control during a period of sliding growth, is simply the surveillance state.
The so-called white card movement was a protest movement where people didn't hold up protest signs, they just held up blank white cards.
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