The difference in my perception is that there is no content for a non-Chinese audience here. Lenin, Stalin, Mao believed in world revolution. Xi's ideology as far as I can tell is not internationalist at all, but profoundly rooted in Chinese exceptionalism.
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And what we're fighting against is the attempts to use that Chinese power - mostly through local elites - to enforce that ideology globally in the ways that matter to the CCP: mostly silence. That's not *identical* to global revolution. But it's close enough for government work.
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This, by
@bentleyballan and others provides one way to think about it - their argument is that China can’t readily provide an alternative global order because it doesn’t have an ideology that resonates with other states -https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/distribution-of-identity-and-the-future-of-international-order-chinas-hegemonic-prospects/6B178D9A058C016F6C7A50A089AA7290 …2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes -
'keep your people quiet, do as you're told, and we'll help you stay in power' *is* an ideology
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It's a one-tweet summary of human history. And old school tweet at that, the shorter kind!
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I mean, I hope that if we were to be implausibly confronted by a rising Sassanid Empire or Imperial Rome, we would also find them to be a morally abhorrent opponent that we worked to fight globally.
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maybe the ambition here is to, in fact, *be better* than the past
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This commitment to self-improvement shows that America is working its magic on you. But I'm trying to mount a defense of the cold war being something quite unique and interesting in human history, unlikely to be seen again
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I'm beginning to worry this was your Woodstock.
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Both sides in the argument now accusing each other of nostalgia
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Like if you mean "Cold War" as what happens when two nuclear armed states who can't directly go to war face off against each other, then I get it. But for some of us, it used to be all about the music.
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