COMMENTARY_ Lethal, centrally controlled autocracy like China cannot be trusted

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Lethal, centrally controlled autocracy like China cannot be trusted

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) more >


COMMENTARY

By Daniel N. Hoffman - - Thursday, October 5, 2023

OPINION:


Chinese President Xi Jinping demands unquestioning obedience to his dictatorial regime. Mobilizing his police state to control China‘s population and commit human rights atrocities, most notably against the Uyghurs, Mr. Xi has imposed an Orwellian level of ideological domination over the state unmatched since Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Deliberately concealing the outbreak and severity of the COVID-19 virus, Mr. Xi — whose real power flows from his position as head of the ruling Chinese Communist Party — demonstrated that his tyrannical government bureaucracy exists only to defend his regime’s security, no matter the human cost at home or abroad.

In early January 2020, health officials in Wuhan were insisting that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission or any signs of doctors becoming sick. In fact, the disease was already spreading rapidly.

Projecting a false image of absolute state control by suppressing dissenting voices, China did not reveal any human transmission of the virus until Jan. 22, 2020 — even though we now know that alarm bells were ringing in Wuhan by the end of 2019 over the growing coronavirus caseload.

Communist Party minders assigned to every institution made sure that doctors who tried to warn of the dangers were arrested for “illegal activity.” To this day, Mr. Xi‘s China continues to block any real investigation of the virus’s origin and refuses to publish accurate data.

The COVID-19 fiasco, which resulted in so much unnecessary illness and death, was an outward manifestation of China‘s lethal, centrally controlled autocracy. There is arguably no greater contrast between the free and open U.S. democracy and Mr. Xi‘s top-down dictatorship than in the comparison between how each system allows its citizens to access information and how each allows them to engage with one another.

Now in his unprecedented third term after amending the Chinese Constitution, Mr. Xi continues to place loyal party cadres in the country’s top bureaucratic posts and to spy aggressively on enemies at home and abroad. His goal is to transform China into the world’s dominant military and commercial power through an aggressive foreign policy designed to eliminate any economic or technological dependence on the West.

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