New Zealand Beware of Complying With Dictatorship Demands
Commentary
It seems that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is particularly sensitive to being described as a “dictator.”
When U.S. President Joe Biden used the description, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was outraged, with its mouthpiece, the Global Times calling it a vicious attack.
If Biden had said that Xi was the “leader of a dictatorship,” perhaps he would not have attracted the same criticism. After all, the expression the “people’s democratic dictatorship” is enshrined in article one of the Chinese constitution.
In classic Marxist ideology, this is necessary to avoid a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
So Xi is the head of a “dictatorship” but dislikes being described as a “dictator.”…