China’s increasingly shrill and desperate efforts to prove itself tough and fearless against President Trump’s tariffs hit a frightening low Thursday when Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning posted old footage of Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party—and the worst mass murderer in history.
This from breitbart.com.
Predictably, the Beijing regime has not well accepted being held accountable for their actions. The usual playbook has been used: declarations of victimhood, veiled threats, and rounds of state-sponsored propaganda which paint America as the aggressor for demanding China play by the rules.
This time, however, the pressure seems to have squeezed out something truly ugly, something beyond the usual diplomatic posturing or economic saber-rattling.
In their scramble to appear tough and unyielding in the face of President Trump’s resolve, the CCP apparatchiks reached deep into their historical playbook, pulling out a figure so monstrous, so drenched in blood, that it leaves decent people aghast. The sheer audacity is, frankly, something else.
In a moment of “stunningly poor judgment, or perhaps chilling self-revelation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning took to social media with footage of Mao Zedong himself, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, declaring his intent to fight America back in the 1950s.
From Breitbart:
No sane person on Earth, outside of the Communist elite, thinks Mao is an admirable model of leadership. Germany might as well have run some old footage of Hitler to declare its opposition to Trump’s tariffs.
To project strength, the CCP invoked the architect of the Great Leap Forward, a man whose policies led directly to the deaths of tens of millions of his own people through starvation and brutal purges. Historians estimate the dead anywhere from 30 million to upwards of 55 million souls—“a staggering mountain of corpses built on utopian ideology and ruthless power consolidation.” Mao was not just a political leader; he was, as Breitbart rightly identified him, “arguably the worst mass murderer in human history.”
So, what does this mean? What message does this send, other than that the current regime under Xi Jinping sees Mao’s brutality not as a shameful past with which to be reckoned, rather as a source of inspiration? Could this possibly be some form of an ass-backward Great Leap Forward threat of war? Displaying the footage of Mao “speaks volumes about their disregard for human life and their own [violent] history, a history they constantly try to rewrite” but what does this mean about today’s tariff war?
What We the People have here “is a terrifying glimpse into the core ideology holding China captive”:
[This display of Mao] suggests a regime so desperate to defend its trade abuses, so rattled by President Trump’s push for fairness, that it openly embraces the legacy of a tyrant responsible for unimaginable suffering.
Will the Chinese ever be able to face the truth about their own history, let alone be honest with the world? Recall the horrors of Mao, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic as a measure of the Chinese capability for cruelty.
Notably, the lives and well-being of the Chinese people are utterly secondary to the power and prestige of the Communist Party elite, particularly Xi Jinping, who seems “absolutely determined to cast himself in Mao’s giant, blood-stained shadow.” Choosing Mao over Deng Xiaoping—a leader who had his own serious issues but at least pretended to open China up a crack—signals a frightening regression towards totalitarian purity.
This grotesque display isn’t strength; it’s the political
equivalent of a cornered animal baring its teeth.
This is a confession of weakness, a bankrupt ideology resorting to its most monstrous icon because it has nothing better to offer. It is a reminder “the CCP remains fundamentally rooted in a philosophy that sees individual human beings as nothing more than expendable cogs in the state machine.” If anyone ever doubted why President Trump needs to be tough on China, this should clear things up immediately.
