Commentary
The Chinese regime consistently makes appeals to the greatness of the Han civilization to bolster its legitimacy. The Chinese people and the global community must always discount the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to accomplish this.
Instead, they should see the CCP for what it is—a communist dictatorship. In this respect, there are two major similarities between the historical Cold War with the Soviet Union and the current one with China.
First, during the Cold War, there were two major blocs, and each bloc possessed a Western ideology—liberalism and Marxist-Leninism—respectively. The fight concerned which Western ideology would dominate and which vision of a global future would….