The PRC is strict about who the UN recognizes because of Taiwan. If they go around disregarding official UN recognition, it just gives more ammunition for the West to push the Taiwan question in the West's favor. It's because of their strict adherence towards UN recognition that almost no African country has a Taiwanese totally-not-an-embassy in their country.
I think people just don't understand the national liberation struggle dimension of the Chinese project. It's like how various tendencies assume that calling Deng Xiaoping a revisionist would somehow lead to Chinese people not liking him when all that would do at best is make Chinese people treat him as some Nasser-like figure instead of a principled socialist, which isn't much of a difference since plenty of people see Nasser as a principled socialist anyways.
Let's take one example. People think that Hong Kong was leased to the British for 99 years, but that's strictly not true. It's actually only the New Territories that was leased for 99 years. Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula were supposed to be permanent British colonies. So why did the British relinquish the entirety of Hong Kong, including Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula, to the PRC in 1997?
It's all because of Deng Xiaoping. He met with Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s to renegotiate terms for the handover, where he more or less threatened that if the UK doesn't hand over Hong Kong, including the parts that weren't covered under the 99 year lease, the PLA would liberate Hong Kong by force. The milk snatcher caved, and that's how Hong Kong was returned to China. I think Maggie tried to pull some "China is going to be a pariah state" bullshit, but reform and opening-up had already commenced, demonstrating the PRC willingness to integrate itself within the (capitalist) world order. She and the UK had no grounds to call China a rogue state.
With this understanding, why would your average Chinese person give a shit when some loser goes, "Deng Xiaoping sucks because he was a revisionist?"
The PRC is strict about who the UN recognizes because of Taiwan. If they go around disregarding official UN recognition, it just gives more ammunition for the West to push the Taiwan question in the West's favor. It's because of their strict adherence towards UN recognition that almost no African country has a Taiwanese totally-not-an-embassy in their country.
I think people just don't understand the national liberation struggle dimension of the Chinese project. It's like how various tendencies assume that calling Deng Xiaoping a revisionist would somehow lead to Chinese people not liking him when all that would do at best is make Chinese people treat him as some Nasser-like figure instead of a principled socialist, which isn't much of a difference since plenty of people see Nasser as a principled socialist anyways.
Let's take one example. People think that Hong Kong was leased to the British for 99 years, but that's strictly not true. It's actually only the New Territories that was leased for 99 years. Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula were supposed to be permanent British colonies. So why did the British relinquish the entirety of Hong Kong, including Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula, to the PRC in 1997?
It's all because of Deng Xiaoping. He met with Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s to renegotiate terms for the handover, where he more or less threatened that if the UK doesn't hand over Hong Kong, including the parts that weren't covered under the 99 year lease, the PLA would liberate Hong Kong by force. The milk snatcher caved, and that's how Hong Kong was returned to China. I think Maggie tried to pull some "China is going to be a pariah state" bullshit, but reform and opening-up had already commenced, demonstrating the PRC willingness to integrate itself within the (capitalist) world order. She and the UK had no grounds to call China a rogue state.
With this understanding, why would your average Chinese person give a shit when some loser goes, "Deng Xiaoping sucks because he was a revisionist?"