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Chinese citizen in US. throwaway account for obvious reason. At this point CCP simply does not care about their image, they're in full process of reverting back to Mao-ism and cultural revolution. Cases in point:

- 赵薇 (Zhao wei), a very famous and popular actress in China, was recently scrubbed from the internet. Her work, including movies or tv series she produced, were scrubbed from streaming platform like Tencent. Her follow feature on Weibo was disabled. Pages that used to mention her now have blank space where her name used to be. This is part of a broader crackdown alongside tech, education, effeminate men, celebrities, etc. Some of these efforts have to do with reducing the foreign culture effects that could lead to discussions about western ideals like freedom or democracy.

- English is deemphasized in classrooms, even in Shanghai. What follows is now 'Grandpa xi Jing ping thoughts', for students as young as 6. The thoughts comprises of 14 principles that promote communist ideals.

- An unknown blogger named Li Guangman (李光满) posted claim that revolution is in the air in China, with profound transformation to be felt by all. https://chinamediaproject.org/2021/09/01/profound-transforma.... This post was spread by official party media websites, no doubt in support of the current CCP agendas.

- All this is in the backdrop of xi jing ping attempting to get his 3rd term next year. That will cement his legacy as the most powerful man since Mao, and his dictatorship for life.

Straight from Xi... much more coming:

“The United States is more aggressively waging a color revolution through the fifth column within China. If this time, we still have to rely on those big capitalists as the main force of anti-imperialism and anti-hegemony,” China will not need enemies to fight. “It will fall first by itself,” just like the Soviet Union back then. That’s why China is reforming the “capital circle” and the “entertainment circle.”

http://chinascope.org/archives/27497

In my own opinion, teaching the Xi Thoughts and communist ideals in school is a good thing, people in a country should learn about their ideology and their government. I don't see it as something negative at all.

They're not learning, they're being indoctrinated. They won't be told of any of the downsides or failures of Xi's ideology.

Since it is one of the compulsory subjects throughout my secondary school and highschool, I had the opportunity to read all the text books. Of course, the teachers are not great (most good teachers are teaching stem subjects), most students won't pay attention to the texts, there are a lot good information in the text book. I don't remember most of them, but I do remember text made me want to study hard and go to college.

You made a jump there but didn’t notice it. Xi jinping thought = ideology and government. There’s no class on Joe Biden thought taught to 6 year olds.

This is not true. 6 year old is year 1 in Chinese primary school. Apparently it is going to be taught at year 3, year 5 in primary school, year 2 in secondary school and year 1 in high school.

I haven't read the text, my assumption is that it would be similar to Mao's, Deng's and Jiang's Thought. Why I consider it is about the government? For example, Deng's thought would set modernization as the priority for country's development. Xi's thought would set new priority. It is just how Chinese government works.

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