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How China Controls Its Citizens
China is zombifying ostensibly regulatory-type international institutions in an effort to spread its pro-Party message.
- E. John Gregory
- The National Interest
In the first two parts of this series, I explained the genesis and logic behind China’s discursive-construction of a truth-ambivalent China-wide safe space where the Communist Party would be unassailable and understood as indispensable to the nation.
I also explained how the Party created a zombified version of what the West calls “civil society” in order to make the safe space self-perpetuating.
In part three, I now turn to how China is making the…