Molson Hart

The Chinese Communist Party as an anti-liberal filtering mechanism. An interesting quirk of the Party is that it locks out potential liberal infiltrators from any real power. Most countries are not particularly sovereign in any real sense of the word because their elites

are fundamentally liberal creatures, having been processed through the American educational-imperial complex to think like Americans. An Ivy league education serves as an imprimatur to elite status in most places, even in China, or arguably especially in China because of long

established educational credentialism. Yet in spite of social power, unlike elsewhere, this doesn't translate into political power (see Taiwan). Americans operate under the assumption that it is Chinese elites they are educating, when in reality they are ex-elites. Xi Jinping's

daughter will never hold any political power in China, nor will Bo Xilai's son, nor will any apparatchiks kid who went to Harvard. The Party simply distrusts them and won't place them in a decision role. They can be wealthy, but they will never have a true say. Liberals call this