The Price of Eggs in China

 

A longtime YouTuber on China reports an article highlighted in the official Chinese press. The Chinese government is cracking down on big corporations, big names in the entertainment industry, and Western cultural influences. They are calling for a second Cultural Revolution.

This sounds grim--not least, in economic terms. The first Cultural Revolution did not exactly lead to prosperity. Some were reduced to cannibalism. 

Andrew Klavan has suggested that the CCP has invented a new form of tyranny, tyranny with prosperity. I doubt that is what is happening here. This sounds to me like desperation. The Xi government is prepared, as Mao was in the 1960s, to sacrifice prosperity to secure and hold power. The CCP fears their hold on the country is tenuous. 

The problem with stars of the entertainment industry is that people look up to them, and what they say can have influence. The problem with big corporations is that they are organized, can get things done, and they can get beyond government control. 

The CCP fears an alternative government forming.