Chinese Decadence Worsens

We hear a lot about the supposed greatness of China under the Chinese Communist Party. And not just from its paid propagandists. Gullible westerners contribute as well. During Covid, for example, American left-wing media praised the CCP’s handling of the pandemic, especially in contrast with how the U.S. managed the disease. Similarly, Sohrab Ahmari has more generally contrasted China with what he views are America’s failings. Ahmari once tweeted that he is “at peace with a Chinese-led 21st century.”

Whereas “late-liberal America is too dumb and decadent to last as a superpower,” Ahmari continued, Chinese civilization “will possess a great deal of natural virtue,” particularly “if it recovers more of its Confucian roots.” Ahmari also once claimed to be struck by “the degree to which mainland Chinese culture fostered under the rule of the Dread CCP — you know, sort of as American conservatives see it — is profoundly conservative, profoundly traditional, compared to anything we would encounter in the ‘conservative’ United States.”

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Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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We hear a lot about the supposed greatness of China under the Chinese Communist Party. And not just from its paid propagandists. Gullible westerners contribute as well. During Covid, for example, American left-wing media praised the CCP’s handling of the pandemic, especially in contrast with how the U.S. managed the disease. Similarly, Sohrab Ahmari has more generally contrasted China with what he views are America’s failings. Ahmari once tweeted that he is “at peace with a Chinese-led 21st century.”

Whereas “late-liberal America is too dumb and decadent to last as a superpower,” Ahmari continued, Chinese civilization “will possess a great deal of natural virtue,” particularly “if it recovers more of its Confucian roots.” Ahmari also once claimed to be struck by “the degree to which mainland Chinese culture fostered under the rule of the Dread CCP — you know, sort of as American conservatives see it — is profoundly conservative, profoundly traditional, compared to anything we would encounter in the ‘conservative’ United States.”