Xi Jinping’s Totalitarian Regime Cannot Coexist With the Democratic World

China is no longer on the trajectory of previous Asia tigers and its economy will shrink if the Communist Party remains in power.

by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
July 7, 2021

Defectors invariably paint their erstwhile regimes in the grimmest of colours. Cai Xia’s forensic broadside on the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China is as grim as it gets.

Professor Xia taught for fifteen years at the Central Party School, the sanctum sanctorum of the Communist elite and the motor engine of revanchist doctrine. The cadres learned that there can be no modus vivendi with “American imperialist wolves”. The foe must be smashed. 

Her long essay on the CPC’s ideological reflexes published by the Hoover Institution should be read with caution but it is nevertheless a seminal text for our time. It is both an exposé of the incorrigible character of this totalitarian beast but also an indictment of Western wishful thinking over forty years of failed strategic engagement.

You cannot engage with the CCP. The party is implacably hostile, because it sees the foreign democratic virus as a threat to its own internal control of China.…