Xi Jinping "Brainwashing" The Chinese People

Xi Jinping is trying to brainwash the Chinese people by claiming a fusion of Communism with Confucianism.

The author is either stupid or deliberately ignoring the role of Chinese Nationalism, and the global rise of nationalism in general. That is the unspoken elephant in the room, and that explains Xi much better than whatever Cold War crap the author is trying to peddle. Yes, America has been trying to sell its version of "Democracy" for almost 200 years now. And an universal vision for "Human Rights" for close to 250. But that vision has been in retreat for a long time now, and the author fails his mission by ignoring the nationalism factor.

The ideological conflict with the #Globohomo is merely a large but minor factor in Xi Jinping’s turn back to Communism. The China of the early 2000's was ultimately a soulless China, due to its eager embrace of materialism, manifesting in the rampant corruption throughout all ranks of the PRC and CCP bureaucracies. The concomitant rise of Falun Gong and Christianity in China was a blatant indicator of Chinese development failures. Despite Western analysts' caricature of the practical materialist soulless Chinese people. It turns out that Chinese people do care about ethics, religions, and ideologies, Western (and Communist) portrayals notwithstanding.

So Xi Jinping faced a spiritual crisis of the CCP. Party members no longer believed in a party or ideology. Nationalism was rising and globalism in retreat throughout the world, evidenced by 2007 financial crisis and the resulting Arab Spring and Colored Revolutions. Xi Jinping was trying to get ahead of the curve and resurrect the CCP as the best and most correct guardian of Chinese Nationalism. By trying to .eld Communism with Chinese Characteristics. Whether he can succeed, of course, is the question of the 21st Century. The answer will also be whether ideologies will ever be relevant again. Or if it is forever subordinated under culture and nationalism.