Xi Jinping, repeatedly rumored to be losing power, has recently resorted to launching multiple rounds of quantitative easing measures in both the financial and fiscal sectors, with rumors suggesting a massive injection of 10 trillion RMB or more in an attempt to reverse the downward trend. Xi Jinping vowed to implement "high-quality reforms," but strangely, he has completely ignored the need to attract foreign investment and strengthen investment, trade, and technological cooperation with the US-led Western bloc, Japan, and South Korea. Xi clings to the myth of China's rise as a great power and the decline of the East and the West, focusing his efforts on challenging "American hegemony" by collaborating with Vladimir Putin, who aims to restore the Soviet Union's superpower status; Iranian clerics seeking to dominate the Middle East; and the madman Fat Kim, who aspires to become a nuclear power.
In reality, Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping inherited the myth of a great power established during the Qin and Han dynasties. They used Legalist and Confucianist thought to tame the people, keeping them impoverished, weak, and ignorant. At the same time, they used extremely brutal means to establish central hegemony and imperial authority. Domestic military, economic, social, and livelihood policies were dictated from the top down, with the emperor presiding over the throne and books burned to stigmatize Confucian scholars. Legalism helped the monarch establish power and stupefy the people, while Confucianism taught the people to accept a resigned, servile mentality of ruler-ruler, subject-minister, father-father, and son-son. Those qualified to become literati were required to cultivate "wisdom, benevolence, and courage" and the tenets of "inner sageliness and outer kingliness," meaning to serve their country to the death and fight for their monarch.
