Some fear Beijing believes it’s own propaganda

Opinion China How I became a China sceptic At home and abroad, Xi’s hardline approach is having negative effects

But the Xi era is looking increasingly like one-man rule, rather than one-party rule. And it is hard to think of many places — from Ceausescu’s Romania to Stalin’s Russia — where that has worked out well. (Mr Xi, incidentally, would not resent comparisons to Stalin — on the contrary, he has urged his followers to continue to learn from the teachings of Stalin and Lenin, as well as Mao.)

習近平独裁はやばいね。


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“Some fear Beijing believes it’s own propaganda.”

You hear this fear voiced privately a lot in Hong Kong these days, from pro-establishment types, to business figures and western diplomats, a sense that the CCP elite can’t see the wood for the trees. https://t.co/ekfWccij0C pic.twitter.com/bEG4MQtdos

— Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) 2020年1月20日

まあ、しかし、Britain believes its own propaganda ともいえるし、
The U.S.  believes its own propaganda　ともいえるわけで、そこらへんは、どっこいどっこいじゃないの？