{"id":22666,"date":"2026-07-15T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22666"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:02:32","slug":"what-americans-need-to-understand-about-china-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22666","title":{"rendered":"What Americans Need to Understand About China | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese leaders believe in Marxist Leninism. They believe that the world will inevitably become Marxist and their Leninist party can speed up this great end. They believe that China deserves to be the world&#8217;s greatest power, that it once was, and that it will be again, and the Chinese Communist Party will lead China to this greatness while at the same time leading the world to its Marxist future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Americans Need to Understand About China | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DprKDXRlubw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leaders believe in Marxist Leninism. They believe that the world will inevitably become Marxist and their Leninist party can speed up this great end. They believe that China deserves to be the world&#8217;s greatest power, that it once was, and that it will be again, and the Chinese Communist Party will lead China to this greatness while at the same time leading the world to its Marxist future. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DprKDXRlubw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,654,89,655,1189,552,1915,490,272,355,314,1688,333,619,158],"class_list":["post-22666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-ccp","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communism","tag-conflict","tag-east-asia","tag-ezra-klein","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-marxism","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22667,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}