It's a bubble and if it's gonna pop it will destroy the economy, THEREFORE you have to bail me out!
Chinese scholars argue that at the base of it was Historical Nihilism (slandering Stalin, Lenin, and the Party and distortion of history) leading to the undermining of CPSU's political legitimacy and loss public trust in socialism. There are many articles about this topic, like this one: https://interpret.csis.org/translations/the-symptoms-damages-and-lessons-of-historical-nihilism-in-the-communist-party-of-the-soviet-union/
There's even a long documentary produced by CPC on the topic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8R-uen6FfFw02bDeh625OKEJ0i5ZS_u8
He's definitely not a Marxist, as you say he tends to call the Soviet Union totalitarian, but at the same time he largely credits it with the development of Ukraine and generally gives credit where credit is due, like in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7GIYYwMNw
China only suspended the specific counter-measures imposed in reaction to America expanding the "entity list" 14-fold (because that was reversed).
The original "diagnosis" of Stockholm syndrome was literally just a random psychiatrist, who didn't ever meet any of the involved persons, explaining the hostages' behavior as, and I quote: "brainwashing". Then the media run with it and the rest is history. https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897
It's actually a very important point that many western observers of China don't get: what is called "private company" in the west and in China are not, in fact, the same thing. For one, private companies outside China don't have mandatory communist cells embedded in them.
That then leads people to see some statistics like share of "private" companies in chinese economy and conclude they're doing capitalism like the good old Europe.
Yep, all those "bring manufacturing/refining back to America" initiatives are effectively just handouts to few well connected capitalists. Everyone will forget about them in a year or two, but the money will stay in their pockets (see the Biden Infrastructure Bill).
Oh no, China is building a wind farm near this impoverished village in Laos! The horror!
Yeah, Von Der Leyer or Baerbock (now the president of UN General Assembly) would be a much better pick.
Also an honorable mention is deserved for Kaja Kallas representing the Baltics.
Capitalists were hiring goons to protect their private property, and at some point they realized they could get the state to subsidize that expense and sell it as "public safety".
Absolute banger of an episode. I especially appreciate the crash course on Latin American politics from Ben.