Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repression policy led to concerted efforts of burnism (mutually assured destruction) in Hong Kong, upsetting all sectors of the economy and ruining education and media. As rational Hongkongers who have lived in Hong Kong for decades, we have to ask: why do the communists commit such mistakes?
Part of the reason rests on the communists’ long-accustomed “revolutionary romanticism.”
The Great Leap Dream to Surpass UK and US
All the political movements in the history textbooks in China are represented in a revolutionary and romantic fashion. For example, the “Great Leap Forward,” launched by Mao Zedong in 1958, was a four-year campaign that sought to push the country to exponentially increase its steel production while collectivizing agricultural farming. The goal was to “surpass Britain in 10 years and the U.S. in 15 years.”…