{"id":12211,"date":"2020-02-21T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:18:23","slug":"chinas-government-is-like-something-out-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinas-government-is-like-something-out-of-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Government Is Like Something out of 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in a single generation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese technological revolution is overseen by an Orwellian dictatorship. Predictably, the Chinese Communist Party has not developed the social, political, or cultural infrastructure to ensure that its sophisticated industrial and biological research does not go rogue and become destructive to itself and to the billions of people who are on the importing end of Chinese products and protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Party officials run the government, military, media, and universities collectively in a manner reminiscent of the science-fiction Borg organism of&nbsp;<em>Star Trek<\/em>, which was a horde of robot-like entities all under the control of a central mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty years ago, American pundits began gushing over China\u2019s sudden leap from horse-drawn power to solar, wind, and nuclear energy. The Chinese Communist government wowed Westerners. It created from nothing high-speed rail, solar farms, shiny new airports, and gleaming new high-density apartment buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/02\/china-communist-government-technological-revolution-orwellian-dictatorship\/#slide-1\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The&nbsp;Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3aX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12255,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/china-boomeranging\/","url_meta":{"origin":12211,"position":0},"title":"China Boomeranging","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Sometime\u00a0in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. 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