listening to Spence on the chinese revolutionary wars now i can't keep track of what's going on. it is a complete clusterfuck. chiang is flitting between leftists, the KMT has its own factions, lenin and trotsky are trying to control everything and fighting one another
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1) I think here lip service *is* revealed preference. He is also signalling the whole country, and the entire national narrative hinges on his lip service. The Zeitgeist in China leans more and more towards objective historical laws: "those who fall behind will be stomped upon"
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Great Rejuvenation, Hundred Year Project, and official language becoming more Maoist in general. Also I don't think (?) Hu did it anything like this much. 2) I forgot
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No. Xi utterly believes in Maoist-Marxist-Leninism. His family suffered hideously in the Cultural Revolution and his mental reaction is to double-down otherwise it would all been for nothing. Like the stuff hardcore Scientologists put up with.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology) …
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