China’s economic system is simply a reworking of Lenin’s New Economic Policy. And Western capitalists have always been perfectly willing to do business with Communist regimes. See the work of Antony Sutton.

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One of the most significant recent developments in American foreign policy is the emergence of a near-unanimous consensus, at least on the political right, that China is now definitively America’s most potent rival in nearly every sphere—be it economically, militarily, or ideologically.

Most retail-level anti-China rhetoric nonetheless fails to understand the true nature of China and its challenge to the United States. To hear Republican lawmakers and pundits tell it, China is threatening because it is communist, the last remnant of the threat posed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

China = Communist = Bad is a logical enough thought process. After all, China is ruled by a Communist Party and this plays right to decades of associations built up by the Cold War. Nonetheless, the term “communist” reveals very little about the Chinese Regime in 2022. The People’s Republic of China has transformed, developed, and adapted so much in the past thirty years that the ideological term “communism” obscures more than it reveals about the Chinese regime in the 21st Century, much as the term “liberal democracy” reveals very little about the actual state of contemporary America.

The very same people who attack China for being communist routinely use “communist” as an epithet for university professors who promote critical race theory, librarians who put on drag queen story hours, or BLM extremists promote rioting in major cities. And this reveals the confusion: China’s government is not remotely like those professors or librarians or BLM activists. However little insight one may gain into China by reading Marx, Lenin, or even Mao, one gains zero insight into communist China by reading Ibram X. Kendi. Or, in briefer terms: China isn’t woke.

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