For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has sold a seductive lie: that China’s economic rise is proof of the Party’s competence. That prosperity somehow justifies authoritarian rule. That leaders like Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Hu Chunhua, and now Xi Jinping, guided the nation to greatness through wisdom, pragmatism, and strategic brilliance.
But this narrative is a fraud—a cover story for what really drove China’s rise: the sacrifice of its people and a cynical abuse of global systems.
Let’s dismantle this propaganda, point by point.
1. China’s Economic Rise Was Fueled by the People—Not the Party
It wasn’t the CCP that built China’s factories, worked 12-hour shifts on assembly lines, or launched successful businesses under suffocating bureaucratic pressure. It was the Chinese people—driven by survival, not state ideology—who made modern China possible.
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The Party didn’t invent the work ethic. Hard work, thrift, and resilience have been core values in Chinese culture for centuries—long before Mao’s famine or Deng’s experiments.
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Reforms happened despite the system. Deng Xiaoping didn’t “design” a market economy. He merely loosened the leash slightly, allowing spontaneous grassroots markets to emerge after decades of ideological ruin. The so-called “socialism with Chinese characteristics” was simply market capitalism tightly controlled by an authoritarian state—benefiting Party elites most of all.
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Economic zones didn’t build themselves. Foreign investors came not because of trust in the CCP, but because they were seduced by cheap labor, intellectual property theft tolerated by the state, and a massive internal market opened under fraudulent pretense of reform.
In short: the people built the economy. The Party built the cage.
2. What the CCP Calls “Diplomatic Victories” Were Achieved Through Lies and Exploitation
The CCP did not win the world’s favor through merit. It deceived, manipulated, and infiltrated its way into international institutions and global trade systems.
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WTO Membership (2001): Gained through promises of liberalization that were never fulfilled in good faith. The CCP pledged to open markets and reduce subsidies, then ignored compliance, weaponizing global free trade rules against rule-of-law democracies.
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MFN (Most-Favored Nation) Status from the U.S.: Continued even after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, thanks to aggressive lobbying, deceptive promises of reform, and cynical exploitation of Western hopes for “peaceful evolution.”
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Technology Theft: The backbone of China’s industrial rise isn’t innovation—it’s theft. From cyberespionage to forced tech transfers, the CCP has systematically stolen intellectual property from American, European, and Japanese firms for decades.
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UN Membership and Permanent Security Council Seat: Secured by hijacking the legal seat of the Republic of China (ROC, a foreign country governed in Taiwan) , falsely branding it the "People's"+ "Republic of China",or “People’s Republic.” This legal deception allowed a totalitarian regime to sit as a “premium” member of global governance—while crushing its own citizens and threatening neighbors.
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Infiltration of Multilateral Institutions (IMF, World Bank, WHO): The CCP has manipulated these organizations through debt diplomacy, bureaucratic infiltration, and elite capture—turning instruments of global development into platforms for disinformation and geopolitical leverage.
None of these gains were earned with integrity. They were conquests of deception, not triumphs of diplomacy.
3. There Is No “Right Leadership” in a Criminal System
The CCP loves to point fingers—at “radicals” like Mao, “corrupt cronies” of Jiang, or “hardliners” like Xi. Meanwhile, it paints figures like Hu Jintao or Wen Jiabao as benevolent technocrats constrained by circumstances. It’s a tired trick: rotate scapegoats to protect the structure.
But the truth is: There are no good leaders in a bad system.
Every leader since Deng has used the same playbook:
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Suppress dissent
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Tighten ideological control
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Exploit global systems for unilateral advantage
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Secure dynastic privileges for family and allies
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Keep the CCP in power at all costs
Jiang oversaw Falun Gong persecution and laid the foundations for the surveillance state.
Hu and Wen presided over brutal censorship, mass unrest suppression, and the crushing of Charter 08.
Xi simply perfected the tools they helped build—taking the system to its logical conclusion: digital totalitarianism.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t a tragedy of failed reform. This is the plan.
4. The CCP’s Rise Is a Danger to the World—Not a Model to Admire
The Party’s economic power now feeds its global ambitions for authoritarian dominance.
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Exporting digital authoritarianism to other regimes
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Using debt-trap diplomacy through Belt and Road
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Silencing critics through diaspora intimidation and transnational repression
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Running disinformation campaigns on Western social media to hijack global narratives
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Undermining liberal democracy while demanding respect for tyranny
This is not a developmental success story. It’s a hostile transformation of global order—from rules-based cooperation to Party-led coercion.
Conclusion: The CCP Deserves No Credit—Only Condemnation
The idea that China needs the CCP is one of the greatest lies in modern history. In reality, it is the Chinese people—despite the Party, not because of it—who have lifted China. Their energy, sacrifice, and ingenuity built the world's second-largest economy under one of the most repressive regimes on Earth.
Deng, Jiang, Hu, Wen, Xi, Hu Chunhua—none deserve credit. They deserve scrutiny.
Their so-called "achievements" were:
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Built on deception
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Sustained through repression
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Amplified by theft
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And exported to the world as a model of control, not progress
It’s time to reject the myth of competent dictatorship.
The world owes its solidarity not to China's rulers—but to the people who built modern China with blood, sweat, and stolen liberty.
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