A challenge for the global leadership

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China’s tightening grip
Xi warning: A century after the founding of the Communist Party, the Chinese leader declared that foreign powers “would break their heads and spill blood” if they tried to stop its rise.
Behind the Hong Kong takeover: A year ago, the city’s freedoms were reduced at breakneck speed. But the crackdown lasted for years and many signals were missed.
A year later in Hong Kong: Neighbors are invited to point out each other. Children learn to look for traitors. The Communist Party is remaking the city.
Charting China’s post-Covid path: Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, seeks to balance confidence and caution as his country progresses while other countries continue to fight the pandemic.
of the United States: As President Biden predicts a struggle between phone number library democracies and their opponents, Beijing is eager to defend the other side.
“Red tourism” flourishes: New and improved attractions dedicated to the history of the Communist Party, or a sanitized version of it, draw crowds ahead of the party’s centenary.
Many say that their greatest enemies are the capitalists who exploit them. The main target of their anger is Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba’s e-commerce empire. He was once hailed as the embodiment of the Chinese dream. Now they laugh at his comments supporting the 996 work culture and saying that business itself is the greatest philanthropy.

“Workers are just money making tools for people like him,” said Xu Yang, 19, who went so far as to say that people like Mr. Ma “must be eliminated physically and spiritually. “. Mr. Ma later reconsidered his remarks, saying he only wanted to pay tribute to workers who put in long hours out of love for their work.

Online calls similar to violence against capitalists – like the cry of the French Revolution to hang aristocrats from lampposts, “by the lantern!” – not to be censored on the Internet in China.