if the “evil CCP” is defeated, China will go down the EXACT same path as Russia
The original play from the West was to install a Capital-friendly apparatchik akin to Yeltsin in the politburo. But Bo Xilai was ousted by Xi Jinping for doing far too many crimes for the rest of the leadership's tastes.
The effort to control China from above backfired in much the same way it backfired in Russia. But with the added twist that Communism, as an ideology, reasserted itself more strongly than at any point in post-Cold War geopolitics.
If "the evil CCP" is defeated, what Americans may find themselves with is an even more Based leftist movement.
The original play from the West was to install a Capital-friendly apparatchik akin to Yeltsin in the politburo. But Bo Xilai was ousted by Xi Jinping for doing far too many crimes for the rest of the leadership's tastes.
The effort to control China from above backfired in much the same way it backfired in Russia. But with the added twist that Communism, as an ideology, reasserted itself more strongly than at any point in post-Cold War geopolitics.
If "the evil CCP" is defeated, what Americans may find themselves with is an even more Based leftist movement.