Australian Polity, Volume 9 Number 3 - Digital Version

“rumours and lies made by the anti-China campaign.”
Xi’s increasingly insistence on ideological purity - in
schools and universities, even in kindergartens, as well as
public and now private enterprises - should be a warning
to the West, including those who believe investment in
China is the same as buying shares at home. In addition
to rejecting universal values, the CCP has also proclaimed
that Xi Jinping’s ‘Thought on the Rule of Law’ is the
central tenet of the law itself. In a new five-year directive,
the Central Committee of the CCP and the State Council
stated that “Party committees and governments at all
levels should study and understand XI Jinping thought
on the rule of law to implement the whole process and
all aspects of the construction of the rule of law.” Xi
Jinping ‘Thought’ is now infused into almost every aspect
of Chinese life. Even the religious institutions that are
permitted to operate under State license are instructed
to display photos of XI, sing patriotic songs and pray for
the “martyrs of the Red Army” in temples and churches.
“Xi’s increasingly insistence on
ideological purity . . . should
be a warning to the West,
including those who believe
investment in China is the same
as buying shares at home.”
Some observers are now suggesting that Xi’s crackdown
on all aspects of society, including global private
enterprises, is the imposition of a new cultural revolution,
a so-called ‘Cultural Revolution 2.1.’ The circumstances
of Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
which he launched in 1966, leading to the deaths of at
least a million people, and Xi’s “profound revolution” differ
greatly, but there is one common feature. The programs of
both Mao and Xi are centred on the accretion of personal
power. There is a ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ on almost every
aspect of Chinese life, including the construction of
public toilets! If the CCP is becoming nervous about
the growing rejection of its policies, it can blame Xi for
his aggression.
This article was originally published in the Spectator Australia,
September24, 2021
44 Australian Polity