Commentary In his 2022 Chinese New Year address, communist regime leader Xi Jinping talked about unity. He mentioned it 12 times. He twice mentioned the reform and opening-up. Xi also touted his achievements, such as the adoption of a third historic resolution, the alleviation of poverty, and building a socialist prosperous society. In fact, the third historic resolution was a compromise of political line struggle; the issue of poverty was only hidden under the regime’s propaganda; and the socialist prosperous society was simply a communist ideological term to cover the misery that average Chinese endure every day. Take two incidents as examples: A pregnant woman lost her baby over the strict pandemic measures in Xi’an; the July floods in Zhengzhou proved to involve official negligence and concealment of casualties. Xi claimed the Party’s success in restoring order in Hong Kong, and efforts to facilitate national reunification. He also mentioned that …