"Our thinking underestimates the stakes as Messrs. Putin and Xi see them. For them, their project isn't only about specialists analyzing military and economic capacities. It's about fundamental belief systems. As such, this is likely to be a long-term struggle that runs beyond the conflicts over Ukraine or Taiwan.
Their conclusion is that the West's populations have become morally soft and politically disconnected from any firm belief in the liberal democratic values that won two world wars and helped the West rise to economic and cultural dominance. Messrs. Putin and Xi think the Western belief system is vulnerable now and replaceable.
"The moral, historical truth is on our side," Mr. Putin said in his New Year's address. "This is the year," he said, that "showed that there is no higher power than love for one's family and friends, loyalty to friends and comrades-in-arms, and devotion to one's motherland."
At the Communist Party's 20th National Congress in October, Mr. Xi asserted that "scientific socialism is brimming with renewed vitality in 21st-century China. Chinese modernization offers humanity a new choice for achieving modernization."" [1]
1. Putin, Xi and One Dead Pope
Henninger, Daniel. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 05 Jan 2023: A.13.
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