The government try and dress up their dictatorial regime as merely culturally different, as if to say that censorship, political imprisonment/persecution , lack of free speech and central planning are a cultural value of the Chinese, rather than simply the values of the regime to ensure it stays in power.
“We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration,” Mr. Hu said. “We should deeply understand the seriousness and complexity of the ideological struggle, always sound the alarms and remain vigilant and take forceful measures to be on guard and respond,” he added.(in other words we are losing control of our citizens they are starting to prefer western values, we must stop this because we cannot allow Chinese to think for themselves )
This quote reminds us of something too easily forgotten, which is that Communists have always taken ideological struggle seriously. Communist theory teaches them to believe that the most effective way to break the will of the opposition is to de-legitimize its ruling class, degrade its culture, destroy its confidence in its own institutions and its own way of life.
Hu Jintao believes that the West is waging a conscious memetic war against Communist China – because he knows that Communists including himself have been waging a conscious memetic war against Western civilization since the 1840s. Sadly, this is not yesterday’s news.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4038
What Hu faces is a reckoning of monumental proportions, the mismanagement of the economy is many time anywhere in the world, as this unravels we will hear many claims that its a western plot rather than his own governments mismanagement.
One day china will be free of these evil communist bureaucrats and they will perish not due to a western plot against them but by their own hand
