To: TobagoJack who wrote (167483 ) 1/23/2021 1:31:17 AM From: Cogito Ergo Sum Read Replies (1) | Respond to Does China want to transform the global order China’s leaders have explicitly presented their authoritarian system of governance as an end in and of itself , not a steppingstone to a liberal state . I disagree.. The CCP insists that it is a meritocracy: Call it the ACGT model: with the same initials as the nucleotides in DNA, these strands of Chinese power combine and recombine to form China’s modern political identity and approach to the rest of the world. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to firm up its grip on Chinese society, encourage consumerism at home and abroad, expand its global influence, and develop and export China’s own advanced technology. China’s current standing and future prospects cannot be understood without seeing all four of those goals together. OVER simplifying .. 3 preclude 4th .. choice up to reader :) Their ambitions are global. This is not wholly new: the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his Communist counterpart, Mao Zedong, both had visions of a major international role for their country in the 1940s and 1960s, respectively. Xi’s China, however, has combined international ambitions with economic, military, and technological power to achieve a genuinely global reach, from port facilities in Athens to a naval base in Djibouti to the rollout of 5G technology across the world. Xi declared in a 2017 speech to the 19th Party Congress that China would move unerringly closer to the “center stage” of world affairs. The key elements of China’s ideological mixture—Marxism-Leninism, traditional thought
