Jiang Shigong's conception of Chinese political thought is a strange intellectual chimera, neither fish nor fowl but a simultaneously reactionary-revolutionary. It is fundamentally still Liberalism, but an atavistic version of it fossilized in the late 19th early 20th centuries.
The most useful metaphor is sticking to running windows 95 as your operating system and declaring that all new features of every succeeding version as innovative heresies or revisionism straying from Gatesist thought. It is still not fundamentally a truly Chinese vision but
rather an earlier variant. The Cold War between the US and China can thus be conceptualized as akin to the conflict between various waves of feminism. If victorious, I doubt China would be able to hold the line and a general relaxation of the war-state will lead to the repeat
and continuation of new innovations in Liberalism as has happened. It may even be inevitable that security and hegemony breeds complacency and degeneracy and that trying to reverse or halt the process is like making water flow upstream. Not possible barring continuous expense of
energy. Even entirely reactionary intellectual movements such as Islamic fundamentalism can be prone to strange innovations, putting underwear on sheep, in the name of doctrinal purity.
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