“a little communism as an anti-treat”

I assume they think doing socialism has held countries back and that the US covertly encouraged it because it kept them from becoming competitive through the virtues of free market capitalism. We are right to laugh at them, of course.

I like to imagine there’s a Chinese double-agent “working for the CIA” and being paid to write these, with their minders signing off on each story nodding thoughtfully and thinking “Yes, this will appeal to our strange Daoist enemies.”

well, not quite, but you get the idea.

Ya. You aren’t equating the global population of ethnically Chinese people to socialists right?
Some of the more economically conservative capitalists I’ve met have been Chinese folk who made it, over generations, to my country via Malaysia. Those trade route histories go way back, it’s wild.

But still, when you consider all the nations who have way more socialist history than our colonies and some of the large populations in some of them, you might be overall right that half the world is (at least culturally/sympathetically) socialist and probably one good fresh revolution away from doing it again. The Chinese mainland population alone does give us a pretty great head start.