“ Nothing’s ever plain or simple. From Xi’s POV pushing FenFen is revenge for the Opium War, I’d bet.”
Yes. They’re insane and irrational, like our reparations crowd etc…
But it’s mainly thought control and a way to retaining power.
Under Chicoms in the People’s Republic of China it’s all propaganda all the time.
And Xi is pals with Putin and Li’l Kim. Birds of a feather...