Commentary
The cold war between the Chinese regime and the United States has many dimensions, but it is fundamentally an ideological one caused by the regime’s communist ideology.
Communism is innately aggressive by its own logic, as it must destroy alternative political ideologies and polities. It is brutal in its suppression of human freedoms and liberties because it knows it is an illegitimate political system that has no mandate from the people. It may only stay in power by coercion of the people.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cannot accept other ideologies and must confront and defeat them. Yet communist regimes must also be aggressive as they are illegitimate forms of government. They must always have internal and external enemies to motivate their believers and sustain and justify their totalitarian grip on power….