Risk of ideologicalization.

 Under Xi Jinping's strong leadership, a new China is emerging. China is changing into a confident and overbearing look. Countries adjacent to China are already feeling tension with their skin.

It is no exaggeration to say that the past 20 years after reform and opening are the golden age of the People's Republic of China. China enjoyed a period of peace along with unstoppable economic growth. There was hope for liberalization here. Bill Clinton once said, "The more China enters the world stage, the more freedom the world will bring to China."

This period was the era of collective leadership of technology bureaucrats, and China achieved the objectives pursued most effectively. But now everything has changed. The economy is stagnating and conflicts with neighboring countries are escalating. Political liberalization is getting farther away, while the government's control over the people is adding intensity. The collective leadership system is weakening, and new leadership of the work-distribution system is emerging.

China's appearance appears completely different depending on which leadership system controls the Communist Party and the country. 

Mao Zedong's absolute power system caused great confusion and destruction of the Great Leap Forward Movement and the Cultural Revolution. China's economic reform was due to Deng Xiaoping's leadership.

Both of these leaders were leaders of the same style in that they showed strong leadership, but they were completely different styles. Mao Zedong's ideological orientation drove China to a catastrophe, but Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic line brought China's golden age.

Xi Jinping has continuously focused his power on him since he became general secretary of the Communist Party.

At first, the authority distributed throughout China was concentrated in Beijing, then in the party, and eventually all that power was concentrated on himself. Recently, he has been strengthening his status by upgrading himself to the highest conson by wrapping himself up like a hero.

In addition, Xi Jinping began to use ideology. Authenticity is desperately required in a party-dominated country. As economic growth, which had been used as a basis for legitimacy, stopped, it became increasingly dependent on ideology. Xi Jinping advised Communist Party officials to keep the Mao Zedong spirit in mind, instructing them to include ideological activities in their daily work. While gray technical bureaucratic leaders boast economic expertise, the new leader boasts the color of ideology and discipline.

However, we must face up to the fact that ideology is a very dangerous force.

Ideas are made according to political needs, but once the ideology is firmly established, political leaders become prisoners of self-made ideology. Ideology explains history, determines our fate, and allows those who fall into it to accept it all as truth. When an ideology becomes a belief system, both the leader and the people become believers of the ideology.

Hitlerism, Stalinism, and Maoism show how destructive ideology is. By believing in the ideological truth, the cruelest means can also be justified. When a strong leader talks about ideology, it should always be faced with danger.

It is clear that Xi Jinping's ideology is not Maoism. His ideology is the history of China, especially the greatness of the people. In short, the great tradition of China is called China's Dream of China's dream. At the opening ceremony of the special exhibition titled The Road to Revival at the Beijing National Museum in 2012, Xi Jinping first presented the slogan of China's dream. At the event, attended by the newly launched Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping referred to China's revival as "the greatest dream in recent history," stressing that "each should think deeply about how to share his future fate with the future of the country."

Xi Jinping's attempt to revive the power and glory ingrained in Chinese tradition in the form of nationalism is bound to be seen as an intention to create a new ideology. In this ideology, the state means everything, and individuals and people become only secondary.

Now, China's dream has become all that people need, and anyone must pledge their loyalty to it. Recently, at the National People's Congress, Prime Minister Li Keqiang emphasized its importance even more, and at the Chinese public broadcaster's New Year's Gala Show, it appeared in a more aggressive form of patriotism.

Ideas can never be seen as pure. If you fall into the temptation of ideology, you will release uncontrollable violence. The ideological long-willed state of exclusion is fundamentally different from the state of a collective leadership system based on pragmatism. The ideology of prioritizing the people over people is very dangerous. China, which has a strong state organization and a leader who combines ambition and ability, cannot be ignored by itself. However, if the leader has begun to arm himself with an aggressive ideology, we have no choice but to fear China.