The Nikkei Asian Review reported on April 18 that the Communist Party’s Ministry of Education has ordered the removal of books from primary and secondary school libraries that could lead to “pandering to foreigners” with a focus on so-called “Xi Jinping thought,” effective around April 1, a move that will affect 240 million primary and secondary school students nationwide, including kindergarteners. The move will affect 240 million elementary and middle school students nationwide, including young kindergarteners, and is intended to foster a new generation of loyal and dedicated successors to Xi Jinping.
A Beijing middle school has already followed the policy by filling its bookshelves with a collection of Xi’s speeches and documents, “The Chinese Dream of Achieving the Great Revival of the Chinese Nation.
The newspaper said all books deemed contrary to the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda and policies will be targeted for removal, especially those related to Western democratic thought, politics, economics, and culture, and even some of those books currently recommended by schools about people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs may be pulled because these These figures exemplify American capitalism.
Books deemed to tend toward a “submissive embrace of all things foreign” have also been banned, which could lead to a ban on foreign books for children. Gulliver’s Travels, which is recommended by bookstores for second graders, may also be banned as a “scientific error. Some elementary school teachers lament that it is becoming increasingly difficult to choose books for children to read.
This is not the first time that such “patriotic education” has been given to students; after the June 4 incident in 1989, Deng Xiaoping argued that young people were protesting because they had not been taught enough patriotism. After Jiang Zemin came to power, he launched a patriotic education campaign that led to the first major violent anti-Japanese protests in China in 2005. However, the promotion of patriotic education was accompanied by a wave of emigration.
Outsiders believe that current Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s patriotic education is geared toward a long-term confrontation with the United States. The U.S. Republican and Democratic parties have agreed to work together to confront the Chinese Communist Party.
According to Qiao Yijian, author of the banned book “Xi Jinping’s Great Opportunity,” “the easiest way out of an ideological situation is to resort to nationalism and traditional culture, but that won’t work. Among China’s rulers from ancient times to the present, the Communist Party is the one that most admires foreigners and panders to foreigners.”
According to a Central Party School professor in 2010, 1.18 million spouses and children of Communist Party officials have settled abroad. In 2012, the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s National People’s Congress (NPC) reviewed the Draft Law on Entry and Exit Administration and received official information that in order to enjoy domestic benefits and pensions, foreign nationals are not allowed to acquire foreign nationality. In 2012, when the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) considered the Draft Law on Exit and Entry Administration, it received official information that 8 million people had acquired foreign nationality without reporting their status in order to enjoy domestic benefits and pensions.
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