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I find the Economist's choice of wording to translate this message quite intriguing. How about another way of putting it: "China encourages its people to strive".

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The nice thing about The Economist is that they wear their preference about Anglo classical liberalism proudle on their sleeve. Their international reporting is wonderful and you quickly learn how to read their information between their bias, because there is no other magazine reporting weekly about African and South American regions.

It's an intentional tip of the hat to Communist sloganeering about "class struggle".

Indeed; but I don't think it is "class struggle" that China is promoting to its people. It would seem to me that the Economist made an conscious attempt to conflate Xi's advocation of continued "class struggle" within CCP with what is being "urging" as seen in the current affairs; to quote:

> Such ideas ("Tangping") are at odds with the Communist Party’s rhetoric. Its leader, Xi Jinping, likes the word “struggle”. In 2019 an official summary of a speech he gave to young officials included more than 50 mentions of it. Struggle is an art, he told them. “We must be good at struggle.”

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