Thank you 
China's foreign policy is entirely centred around keeping China's 1.4+ billion people safe.
I wonder how much of that's driven by the memory of the USSR's interventionist policies and its collapse following e.g. its failure in Afghanistan.
Beat me to it lmao
Also why is a classroom of 6 year olds learning obscure early modern geography
Believe me, I plan to!
Yeah, he was right about that at least.
Hot take:
Socialist realism was a straitjacket and imposing it while suppressing modernism was an L for Stalin. Fundamentally reactionary, as evidenced by the fact that the Nazis were doing the same thing at the same time (pushing purely representational art as the only legitimate form of creative expression while waging war against modern art as "d-generate")
Name: Beanis B. Rain
Occupation: Hexbear's assigned FBI agent
Place of residence: Liberal Mountain, Idaho
And washing it down with liberal tears 
EDIT: lol the replies are pure liberal idealism
China faces the same issue as any other authoritarian nation. It's only as good as it's leadership. A benign dictator may well be the most effective form of governance, yet so few dictators are in fact benign. On a long enough timeline, all dictatorships degrade into graft and systemic human rights abuse.
It's taken precisely one nationalistic 'president for life' to strip China of it's emerging civil liberties, turn the nation inward, enormously increase xenophobia and create a prison camp from an entire region (Xinjiang). Where is the freedom of movement, let alone economic success for rural Chinese who cannot freely travel within the country, and need state approval to apply for a passport?
Perhaps China seems so appealing because the United States is so evidently failing as a state. But if there is hope for the future, it should be in systems which decrease power distance, not those that deify glorious leaders.
I am learning way more than I expected to going into this thread.
Believe me, I'd take you if I could