Han supremacy is being aggressively promoted by the Chinese state

China’s Youth Are Trapped in the Cult of Nationalism Dreams of liberalization have clashed against the reality of successful propaganda. BY VICKY XIUZHONG XU OCTOBER 1, 2019, 5:30 AM

The romantic idea has long persisted that the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who enroll in Western universities each year are secret rebels who will change the country for the better. Except most are not. Even when Chinese nationalists go abroad, it is difficult for them to change their minds. Many effectively stay inside the Great Firewall for the comfort and convenience it offers.

Let me spell it out: This is the Chinese version of the alt-right, except it isn’t fringe. Instead of “Make America Great Again,” the Chinese students were chanting “Long Live China.” Instead of blasting racist speeches against the ethnic minorities clearly visible in the West, this time the discrimination was political and regional—targeting Hong Kongers and their supporters. But the rage, the aggression, and the pride on the streets are all too similar.

Meanwhile, domestic issues are always forced to the back burner because the priority is to fight foreign forces from all sides. These narratives are fed to schoolchildren and the general public alike in their every waking moment. It’s impossible to escape—I should know, because I spent the first 19 years of my life living and studying in China. On the first day of primary school, we were given a student handbook in which the first rule was to love the country and the party. Growing up, “Taiwan is a sacred, inseparable part of China” was taught to us as a fact just like “the Earth is round.” The most common wish for an idealist Chinese teenager is to “serve the motherland”—while in the West, perhaps, it’s to “make the world a better place.”

Nationalists are the majority—and likely to stay that way. In a global environment where Han supremacy is being aggressively promoted by the Chinese state

海外に留学する中国人留学生は西洋の考えに感化されて自由民主主義の発想が身につくかと思いきや、中国ナショナリズムべったりの留学生が大半。感化されて中国を批判しようものなら、国賊として非難轟々である、と。 　

　西側諸国もナショナリスティックなのだが、法の支配、個人の自由の尊重と民主主義がわりに根付いている点が違う。 
　西側は、国内的には自由民主主義、国際的にはナショナリズムとリアリズムといった感じかな、実質的には。