This is the best thing they've done since they named me person of the year 2006
The Maoists at the WP will be very unhappy with this revisionist line taken
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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Zhou Enlai stans at the Economist are malding right now
i can't wait to see what the (Far Left Hoxhaist) CNN are gearing up for
Ultra Left Fox News is staying in their armchairs looking smug over the rest of the liberals
Wait till the LaRoushites at MSNBC hear about this!
My Mum Wasn't Actually Really Gone - She Was There Throughout the Whole Game of Peekaboo
Wow China really is falling apart their paramilitary cops don't even have as machine guns and armor! Even our regular cops have that!
They only had 2 fatalities in the Hong Kong colour revolution in 2019. Those are rookie numbers. Chinese cops have barely shot any pet dogs at all! A country in decline
"We are so back" 
We never went away 
Hypernormalization: when the country was a success of capitalism - wow, look at the Tiger economies. When they have become a threat through that very same process of modernization. Goddamn look at these evil commies.
The script flipped once China started restricting foreign investment from buying up capital in China.
archived article if you're curious, I haven't gotten to it, its probably shit
Not gonna lie, the John Foster Dulles name-drop made me do a spit take. This author has gotta be one of those old as fuck Kissinger types. Let's check his Wikipedia:
In Patient Zero (2003) and Narcotic Culture (2004), Dikötter posits that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself.
Every “China watcher” is a satanically racist imperialist
What the fuck, lmao
prohibition of drugs in the countries i'm familiar with has been worse than the drugs 
And those prohibitions didn't even result in Britain invading, which can't have been good for anyone's health
to be fair to my mom's musical taste the war on drugs didn't ramp up until after that period
There's zero chance this guy applies the anti-prohobition argument to the imperial core
Wasn't a bad read. It's full of drum beating about china being authoritarian and how they're preventing "ordinary people" from changing the country (ordinary to Time Magazine means millionaires and billionaires), but aside from those two issues it essentially reads as a description anyone here would make of China's reform and opening up being a clever trick that used capitalist power in socialist hands.
It's basically the ML take on China except with anti-china framing to make it palatable for liberal ears.
It's actually been very odd how many normies I've explained this to at work or whatever and the response been 'ohhhh, that makes sense. Good for them, they really bamboozled these guys'
This is what I think of every time I see one of these goofy ass photos on western articles.
Imagine being there and having to watch some cracker crawl into a tiny drainage ditch for his shitty propaganda photo op lol.