The CCP has staked its legitimacy on reabsorbing these areas and has cultivated an intense, revanchist form of nationalism among the Chinese people. Schoolchildren study the century of humiliation. National holidays commemorate foreign theft of Chinese lands. For many citizens, making China whole again is as much an emotional as a strategic imperative.

People from the most propagandised nation in the world is saying that those DAMN chinese are actually indoctrinating their youth into harmful nationalism.

Those damn Chinese, indoctrinating their youth by checks notes telling them the truth about what the West did to China?