Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chinese President Xi Jinping (centre) has been promoting the concept of the ‘Chinese dream’ since 2012. Many believe the answer lies in what has been termed the Chinese Dream — becoming a prosperous nation with its people well taken care of. … Now China is the closest it has been since the beginning of the modern Chinese history, to the achievement of restoring the glory of the Chinese nation. Portions of the Chinese Dream section are very similar to a 2013 article on the state-run news organisation China.org.cn, written by the deputy director of the Chinese Marxism Institute at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Fang Songhua. These were “hardly what one expects in a propaganda piece”, the spokesperson said, and readers were also expected to address the Chinese Dream section critically.

Source: The Guardian August 25, 2020 17:26 UTC