Red Ghost

China has decided to revive Mao for some reason:

China’s failure to deal honestly with the horrific legacy of Mao Zedong, like its refusal to look squarely at the monstrous evil of Tiananmen Square, should repel decent people around the world. China’s current dictator, Xi Jinping, has worked to erase the legacy of his predecessor Deng Xiaoping and establish himself as the most important in Chinese Communist history, second only to Mao – and maybe not even second to Mao. Deng was the leader who revolutionized China’s economy by industrializing and “opening up” to the West. Deng’s old quotes about “opening up” are heard with growing frequency in modern China and the Chinese people made a folk hero out of the last great disciple of Deng, former premier Li Keqiang. Li supposedly died of a sudden heart attack in 2023 at the relatively young age of 63, but some Chinese believe Xi had him eliminated because a political counter-culture was forming around him. If the message Mao Ning wanted to send is that her tyrannical government is ready to impoverish or kill an unlimited number of Chinese people to protect the unfair trade practices that made Communist mandarins rich, then she picked the right poster boy.

Like the Fab Four once said: