The Chinese Regime Is in a Legitimation Crisis

At root, the Chinese Communist Party is illegitimate, so it is in a lasting and insuperable legitimation crisis.

Scores of exiled Tibetans, Hongkongers, Chinese dissidents, and others burn down the flags of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and present a black coffin for the CCP in protest of its brutal rule in China in front of China's consulate general in New York City, on July 1, 2021, its 100th anniversary. Huang Xiaotang/The Epoch Times

Commentary

The lasting economic downturn in China and the myriad social problems the Chinese regime confronts cannot be papered over by Xi Jinping’s prominence at the BRICS meeting or other international fora. The Chinese regime’s problems are multiple but the result of a fundamental cause. At root, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is illegitimate, so it is in a lasting and insuperable legitimation crisis.