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• The Chinese Communist Party has published regular communiques pushing Xi’s ideological line and When Marx met Confucius is the latest version of this propaganda drive.
• Its aim is to reconcile the regime’s official Marxist underpinnings with an appeal to a more specifically Chinese cultural heritage.
• This idea was introduced by Xi in July 2021, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Some analysts view Xi’s propaganda efforts through the lens of his steady encouragement of a cult of personality in China.

Challenges of legitimacy

• As Ci observes, the CCP “can have no other publicly avowable source of legitimacy than the one tied to its communist revolutionary past”.
• But this legitimacy was significantly weakened after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
• But this performance legitimacy, relying heavily as it does on economic success, contains inherent vulnerabilities that could undermine the regime.

Lukewarm public response

• Outside of official endorsements, the film seems to have received few positive comments within China.
• Significantly, initial responses from two main ideological camps – the Maoists and the Confucianists – have diverged dramatically.
• So this attempt to promote “Xi Jingping thought” to the Chinese public appears to be a hard sell.

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• In his speech, Xi stressed that the international community needs to deepen exchanges and practical cooperation to jointly advance the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace to a new stage.
• Participants highlighted the "open, inclusive and equal" approach the summit has been delivering for 10 consecutive years.
• They noted that it mirrors the call from China that as a responsible major power, building a community with a shared future in cyberspace promotes common development.
• "Building a community of a shared future equates to constructing an open, inclusive and safe cyberspace environment.

• According to Messick, his company, doTERRA, booked a 9-square-meter booth to test the waters at the inaugural edition of the CIIE in 2018.
• However, that tiny booth brought the American essential oil brand tentative deals worth 380 million yuan ($55.48 million).
• "I think the main message that he gave was, look, China is open to the world, we are open to having businesses come to China and be successful here.
• Any country, no matter its size and strength, can utilize CIIE as an opportunity to access China's large market.

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