China’s Great Philosophers Would Despise What Mao and the CCP Created

A man walks beside a statue of Confucius at the Confucius Temple in Beijing, China, on Sept. 28, 2010. Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

When the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” Gordon Chang, predicted the imminent demise of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule two decades ago, he argued that “regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they’re no longer alone.”