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History of the Chinese Communist Party (view source)
Revision as of 10:19, August 12, 2021
, 10:19, August 12, 2021→1969 Sino-Soviet border war
“However, even if Washington did not want to see China burn, it would not likely have engaged in any serious, affirmative effort to protect Beijing from Moscow’s wrath.”}}
“However, even if Washington did not want to see China burn, it would not likely have engaged in any serious, affirmative effort to protect Beijing from Moscow’s wrath.”}}
===Rapprochement with the U.S.===
In 1972 the world was stunned when American President [[Richard Nixon]] visited Beijing, ending the cold war between the two countries and opening an era of détente and friendship that continues into the 21st century.<ref>For primary sources and details see [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kissinger/nixzhou/ "Record of Historic Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified"]</ref>
After 1978, Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping focused on market-oriented economic development, and by 2000 output had quadrupled, population growth ended (by imposing a one-child policy), and good relations were secured with the West. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls and Internet censorship remain tight.
For regime survival, the CCP sought to reshape external perception of China after it opened up to the world in the late 1970s. To that end, the Party moved to control and influence critical channels of messaging delivery—[[schools]], [[think tank]]s, [[media]], [[business]], and political elites—to ensure effective delivery of its [[propaganda]]. In the coming decades the CCP successfully created a “Red Matrix,” or an informational environment that is largely pro-China and lacking in key knowledge about the CCP.
During the First [[Cold War]] the [[Soviet Union]] formed the [[Iron Curtain]] to “block out” [[the West]]. The CCP, however, created a Red Matrix to “plug in” the world to a view of China that the CCP controlled. The result of these influence operations were decades of misinformation and [[disinformation]] about China that has been knowingly or unknowingly produced by Western information repositories and providers.<ref>https://sinoinsider.com/2018/10/the-world-is-trapped-in-red-chinas-matrix/</ref>
==Deng and successors==
==Deng and successors==