Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Asking what Xi wants is the wrong question because the appetite grows in the eating. Even if Xi just wants to dominate East and Southeast Asia right now, once China has gained that, their appetite will grow and they will want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQfzDs7RzI
Tariffs are hurting the Chinese economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3hpt8YAS0
German middle class people tended to support Hitler’s Nazi Party. They were afraid of Communist rebellion from below and dominating wealthy elites from above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqESHNvmP20
“The Chinese government and Chinese companies do not enjoy the benefits of free speech guaranteed by our Constitution. But American citizens still do, including the often forgotten right to hear and receive information, even from the most suspicious sources. In his seemingly reluctant and “admittedly tentative” concurring opinion in TikTok v. Garland, Justice Neil Gorsuch alluded to the principle and its history while acknowledging the unique technical and security challenges presented by TikTok: “Speaking with and in favor of a foreign adversary is one thing. Allowing a foreign adversary to spy on Americans is another.””
https://reason.com/2025/01/22/tiktok-or-not-americans-still-have-a-right-to-receive-communist-propaganda/
CUBA Has Collapsed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcgBodh9QQ
Some of Marx’s ideas were good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmX0hZoiJM
Chinese economic growth has slowed despite not yet being a rich country.
Instead of allowing free market actors to flourish, the Communist Party is clamping down so that private actors won’t be a threat to their control. This will damage their attempt to return to high economic growth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GayROZqY15U
“police in China recently cracked down on costumed revelers because of the supposed threat they pose to the Communist government.
Indeed, law enforcement in Shanghai last weekend set their sights on celebrants who had the audacity to dress up, for example, as a poop emoji and as Kim Kardashian, the latter of whom can be seen on video waving goodbye to the group behind her as she was forced into a police van.”
https://reason.com/2024/10/31/halloween-is-a-middle-finger-to-communists/
The leader of China believe in Marxist-Leninist principles and sees capitalist and foreign capitalist countries as enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGq-A6Ap8oI
“You are Chinese and a characteristic of being Chinese is embracing the Chinese Communist Party.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1INaqj1Ik