Xi personally chairs the Central Commission for Cybersecurity and Informatisation, which oversees the country’s digital networks. Shortly after Xi took power, he stressed the importance of the tech sector, but also earmarked cybersecurity a national priority. Xi is working in the system that Mao created – campaign governance, the party being the centre of everything, nationalism, all these resonate with Mao.” “There is a line from Mao to Xi, and ‘reform and opening’ an aberration. “This gives an indication that ‘reforming and opening’ is a means to an end.”Ĭhris Marquis says Xi Jinping is creating a culture of fear in China that will stifle innovation. “Mao’s ideology and dictatorship of the proletariat comes first, reform and opening is second,” Marquis says.
While the west welcomed Deng’s reforms, it largely overlooked that his premise was his “four cardinal principles”, namely Mao Zedong Thought, Marxism-Leninism, “people’s democratic dictatorship” and Communist party leadership.
Based on our own natural bias, we have this great system and China will want to be like us, but actually, not.” “There was this dominant theory that when you open economically, political liberalisation follows,” he says. With a history and sociology background, Marquis, who last year published Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, has studied entrepreneurs, listed companies and provincial and city officials in China, and found that Mao Zedong’s ideology, campaigns and institutions continue to have a deep influence on their thinking.įor decades after the former leader Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening” policies of the late 1970s, the west had hoped that China’s venture into open markets and private enterprise would spell the end of the state-controlled economy. The party sits above the government, sits above the economy and the military even.” “In the west, it’s very hard for people to really understand the depth of control.
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