China’s socialism beats capitalism, Communist Party ideology veteran says in ‘bid to shore up support’

Name: Are Xi Jinping’s China and Donald Trump’s US destined for armed conflict?
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President’s ideas are the Marxism of this century and China is enjoying ‘the most wonderful chapter of world socialism in 500 years’, article says

Propaganda campaign aims to project the country’s confidence and Xi’s grip on power after the Covid-19 outbreak, observers say

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Xi Jinping’s ideas will bring a “decisive achievement” regardless of challenges such as Covid-19, a Communist Party newspaper has said. Photo: Reuters

William Zheng

Published: 8:00am, 16 Jun 2020Updated: 1:46pm, 17 Jun 2020

A Communist Party newspaper has said China is determined to show that “socialism is indeed better than capitalism”, in what observers say is an attempt to rally support for the party as it faces unprecedented challenges including the coronavirus pandemic and its rivalry with the United States.

Study Times, official newspaper of the Central Party School, where party officials are trained, published on its front page on Monday a commentary by a senior figure at the school that praised the ideas of President Xi Jinping and called the present era “the most wonderful chapter of world socialism in 500 years”.

He Yiting, executive vice-president of the school, said that under the guidance of Xi’s political thinking, “socialism with Chinese characteristics will clearly tell a great conclusion: socialism is indeed better than capitalism, as the decisive achievement of building a powerful socialist modern country will show”.

The article continued: “Today, the great success of socialism with Chinese characteristics has written the most wonderful chapter of world socialism in 500 years. The world’s two ideologies, two doctrines and two systems are undergoing profound changes in favour of socialism.”

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Are Xi Jinping’s China and Donald Trump’s US destined for armed conflict?

A seasoned expert on party ideology, He hailed the president’s political thinking as “the Marxism of the 21st century”. He said Marx and Engels represented Marxism in the 19th century; the ideas of Lenin, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping represented Marxism in the 20th century; and Xi’s thought represented the Marxism of today.

Xie Maosong, a professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said a situation such as a pandemic could accelerate either the rise or fall of great powers.

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