{"id":518637,"date":"2022-11-30T02:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anti-xi-protests-should-end-american-lefts-china-envy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T02:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:31:27","slug":"anti-xi-protests-should-end-american-lefts-china-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anti-xi-protests-should-end-american-lefts-china-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Anti-Xi protests should end American left&#8217;s China envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39e42a1b51a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39e42a1b51a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anti-xi-protests-should-end-american-lefts-china-envy\/#%E2%80%9CAnti-Xi_protests_should_end_American_lefts_China_envy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Anti-Xi protests should end American left&#8217;s China envy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAnti-Xi_protests_should_end_American_lefts_China_envy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Anti-Xi protests should end American left&#8217;s China envy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Xi Jinping, just starting a third term as head of China\u2019s ruling Communist Party, is having a bad week. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be this way.<\/p>\n<p>In his first two terms, Xi cracked down hard on opposition to government policies, cut back on his predecessors\u2019 economic liberalization and purged rivals to consolidate power. But now he faces grassroots protests across China, with large groups of demonstrators even calling for him to step down and Communist Party rule to end.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters aren\u2019t just denouncing Xi, the party and the government\u2019s heavy-handed COVID policies \u2014 they\u2019re also objecting to rampant censorship by holding up blank sheets of paper. The government has tried to keep the public from figuring out what\u2019s going on, but it has failed.<\/p>\n<p>This poses a challenge to the many Westerners who seem to have suffered from \u201cChina envy\u201d in recent years. Frustrated by democracy, they wish they could emulate Xi in enacting the policies they desire without the tedious necessity of persuading voters.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times columnist Tom Friedman famously wished we could be \u201cChina for a Day\u201d so we could implement \u201cthe right solutions.\u201d The World Economic Forum\u2019s Klaus Schwab recently praised China as a \u201crole model\u201d for other nations. And much of the West\u2019s initial COVID policy was based on China\u2019s, something infamous Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz was just celebrating.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China-Covid-Protests.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Protesters holding up blank pieces of paper in a demonstartion against the Chinese government in Hong Kong on November 28, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24832866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China-Covid-Protests.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China-Covid-Protests.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China-Covid-Protests.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China-Covid-Protests.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Protesters holding up blank pieces of paper in a demonstartion against the Chinese government in Hong Kong on November 28, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Anthony Kwan\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the corporate front, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le even gave Xi more than moral support, effectively disabling AirDrop \u2014 an feature that lets iPhone users directly share messages and files, popular with Chinese activists \u2014 only within China, just before the protests heated up. That\u2019s clout.<\/p>\n<p>But being China isn\u2019t actually as great as it sounds. Being a one-party state without democratic institutions makes you stupid. You don\u2019t get the information you need when you need it because there\u2019s no free press or opposition, and underlings don\u2019t like to share bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> with bosses. And having eliminated all significant opposition, Xi has no one else to blame. The \u201czero-COVID\u201d policy is his, it\u2019s been a disastrous failure, and everyone knows it.<\/p>\n<p>In a classic \u201cStar Trek\u201d episode, a rogue sociologist infects a planet with Nazism because it was the most \u201cruthlessly efficient\u201d government in history. Bunk. Hitler did lots of stupid things, and there was no one who could stop him. His Germany was the scene of endless bureaucratic backstabbing, duplication and waste. (Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union was at least as bad, for the same reasons.) Dictatorships may look dynamic because they can do things fast. The problem is they often do stupid things fast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A person holding a up a sign calling for the removal of Xi Jinping at a protest outside of the Chinese consulate in Toronto, Canada on November 29, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24832860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A person holding up a sign calling for the removal of Xi Jinping at a protest outside of the Chinese consulate in Toronto, Canada on November 29, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Chris Helgren<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intellectuals are nonetheless instinctively attracted to authoritarian regimes because they have ideas they want put into practice, but ordinary people are usually resistant to being their lab animals. Famous architect Le Corbusier dedicated a book \u201cto authority\u201d because, well, who <em>else<\/em> was going to put his (bad) ideas for redesigning cities into practice? He was far from the only intellectual to feel this way.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Democracy requires those who want society to change to persuade the masses. That\u2019s hard work and often results in one\u2019s ideas being subject to withering criticism, which is always unpleasant. Hence the desire to sidestep that process with autocracy. That desire is distressingly widespread among our political class.<\/p>\n<p>Americans should be concerned.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re protected from becoming China, to a degree at least, by institutions that keep our governments from exercising the kind of unchecked power Chairman Xi takes for granted. But it\u2019s worth remembering those institutions require constant maintenance and support. And there are plenty of people in our own governing class who would rule like Xi if they could, even though the results would likely be just as disastrous. We should be worried that neither our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> nor our elected officials seem as supportive of those institutions as they should be.<\/p>\n<p>We should also be concerned that many of our institutions \u2014 particularly our universities and the press \u2014 are particularly prone to turning out people who regard the great mass of Americans as, at best, dangerous boobs to be managed and at worst as an active threat to their own hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Autocracies ultimately never deliver the wealth, peace and security they promise. But they do make some people feel powerful and important. And that, unfortunately, is enough to make autocracy a constant threat. Even here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It wasn\u2019t supposed to be this way. 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