I stumbled on the analysis of the “six effects” by one of Xi Jinping’s closest advisors. This book begins by referencing Chen Yixin’s pronouncements not simply for the sake of their inherent interest, but to make a larger point. The fact that Chen’s map of convergent crises was so apt, that it was more illuminating than the EU’s talk of polycrisis or America’s solipsistic preoccupation with its national narrative, should give us pause. The intellectuals of the Chinese regime are loyal to their party’s political project. They are at work on their own version of history.
