Xi Refashions China

ASCF REPORT, May 2, 2023

The People’s Republic of China was born in 1949 when Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War and consolidated control over mainland China. By every measure, Mao was a communist revolutionary and true believer in Marxist-Leninist ideology: He launched a branch of the Socialist Youth League, led a people’s army in waging guerilla warfare, wrote treatises on revolutionary struggle and proletarian movements, unleashed brutal collectivization programs, supported foreign communist movements with military and economic aid, erased all traces of the individual, and justified his ruthless means by pointing to his “glorious” ends…