![]() ![]() Its economic growth and development have reshaped the global economy while Beijing’s growing power and brashness raise alarm. What is happening in China today is, without question, remarkable. ![]() ![]() Even the very fact that the Chinese Communist Party is, in effect, a political entity with a state and China is less a state with a political party, leaves Western observers scratching their heads. Overseas organizations purporting to be cultural often mask a more direct tool of Chinese Communist Party influence, such as those coordinated or directed by the United Front Work Department. Hierarchies and structures, when mapped against similar Western entities, present a false appearance of that which matters and where one stands in the political pecking order. How the Chinese Communist Party presents itself to the world is not how it presents itself to the Chinese people. This opacity and difficulty are not merely philosophical considerations but have tangible, real-world effects. We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State | Kai Strittmatter | Custom House | September 2020. ![]()
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