A room without mirrors

Chairman Xi’s fear of humiliation explains China’s projection of strength abroad and the Communist Party’s obsession with control at home, but the CCP’s inability to admit fault and deal with internal problems will doom it to collapse, like every authoritarian regime before it.

Regimes don’t have the rights of nations

The Chinese Communist Party presents itself as synonymous with the Chinese nation to bolster its legitimacy but democratic nations should not play along with its charade.