Li Chengpeng: The End of the Universe is 'Insulting China'

Renowned writer Li Chenpeng used the farce of French football star Kylian Mbappé being accused of "insulting China" over a meme to deeply analyze "selective trauma" and national humiliation education in Chinese society. He compared how various countries around the world mock their own and foreign leaders, discussed Mao Zedong's governing history in detail against political science standards, and pointed out the cognitive deformity behind the absurd phenomenon that "the end of the universe is insulting China.

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For the past few days, a Soviet joke has been echoing in my mind. A man standing in a square mutters, "Asshole, I really can't stand this asshole anymore." The KGB immediately arrests him. The man says, "I didn't even say who the asshole is." The KGB says, "Stop fucking playing dumb, you think I don't know who you're talking about as the asshole?"

On October 26, the French talk show The Bridge released behind-the-scenes footage recorded in April. The host asked Mbappé, "Which meme of yours is the best-looking and most fun?" Mbappé answered. That very night, Dongqiudi issued a solemn statement saying that Mbappé had made remarks that harmed China and the Chinese people, which was unacceptable to them. Major Chinese products endorsed by Mbappé successively terminated their contracts, CCTV removed reports and videos related to Mbappé, the Chinese Foreign Ministry protested, people nationwide angrily denounced Mbappé, and Mbappé and La Liga officials were forced to apologize. Mbappé insulted China; a foreign athlete has insulted China again and again and again and again. I am not flustered and exasperated, but rather pointing out that foreign athletes with ulterior motives have insulted China repeatedly, so I must say he has insulted China again and again and again and again. But this time, there is a magical phenomenon to this insult to China: the people nationwide have never known what exactly Mbappé insulted or what the content was. The whole world is asking what on earth he said or did to insult China, but no one answers. To this day, national media only say that Mbappé insulted China, and would rather die than reveal the content of the insult, giving the reason that repeating it would dirty the pages, and we will not give him a second chance to spread it, keeping it deeply mysterious. Dongqiudi, who understands politics even better than they understand football, only stated that the content cannot be translated, but the patriotic masses in our country have such high awareness that even without knowing the content of the insult, they still cooperate with the state to criticize it first. Do not ask what Mbappé actually said, and do not give that remark a second chance to be spread; his statement was indeed outrageous, hurting the feelings of the Chinese people, eating Chinese rice while smashing Chinese pots will never be forgiven. Good heavens, I finally managed to catch this wave; mothers no longer have to worry about my lack of patriotic fervor. I finally caught you insulting China, extremely excited, raining blows, on an expedition everywhere, leaving not a single blade of grass. Real Madrid, listen up: if you don't fire Mbappé, if you don't punish Mbappé, if you don't sanction Mbappé, we will never watch Real Madrid again. The most magical protest in this world is when you don't know what you are protesting, but you must protest, and you must protest with extreme anger.

When I was a child in Xinjiang, I raised a sheepdog that was extremely good at reading its master's expressions. Whenever my father furrowed his brows, it would start barking wildly in the direction of his gaze. In reality, sometimes my father was just constipated, but the dog would still bark wildly. I'm sorry, this is really not about insulting China; I was very, very good friends with that dog. He was very loyal and very cute, and in the end, I even saw him through to his final days. After I grew up, I learned an idiom: "One dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred dogs bark at the sound." What does it mean? It means that one dog sees a shadow and starts barking, and a hundred other dogs, having seen nothing at all, just follow along and bark chaotically. Brother, we have to bark something, right? Buzz, buzz, buzz, loyalty, fucking awesome.

By the way, later on, people vaguely knew the content of Mbappe's "insult to China," but they didn't dare to say it directly, only daring to hint that the kid Mbappe slandered the Tang Dynasty as being an art student. Look, this kind of implied joke is really high-level. Mbappe only said he liked to use a Chinese dictator for memes, without saying which dictator. But our country has too many dictators, too many great leaders. Qin Shi Huang who burned books and buried scholars alive; Emperor Wu of Han who emptied the national treasury and caused half the population to die; Zhu Yuanzhang who killed all his meritorious officials and turned his back on his brothers; Empress Dowager Cixi, the Old Buddha, who humiliated the nation and forfeited its sovereignty. But later, everyone confirmed that the meme Mbappe used was indeed our great leader Chairman Mao. This is intolerable; who could bear it? I thought about it all night: was Mbappe just playing with a meme for fun, or did he really have some political intent? Is Chairman Mao really a dictator? Why is our great China always so easily "insulted" by opposing forces? Let's analyze it layer by layer below.

Mbappe's nickname on the pitch is 'The Dictator' because his style of play is very selfish; he takes the ball, dribbles, breaks through, and does it all himself. Whether he passes or not depends on his mood, so fans call him 'The Dictator'. Later, when he won a major award and returned to his hometown in Cameroon, he was surrounded by crowds, and fans started calling him 'Mobutu', the dictator who ruled Zaire for 32 years. Even his teammate Dembele joined in the teasing. This is actually a combination of fan culture and internet meme culture. If you really want to make a big deal out of it, the German striker Gerd Muller was called 'Der Bomber', and people have long called the German team the 'German Tank'—can you say this is glorifying Nazi weapons of mass murder? Then there is Brazil's Edmundo, who had a rough personality and played brutally; fans called him 'The Animal'. Would he sue the fans for disrespecting his personality? Players' nicknames are bizarre. Pique is called 'Geri', and Leeds United's Hunter was called 'Bite Your Legs'—can you imagine someone having the nickname 'Bite Your Legs'? Do you want to sue him for bloody violence? Chelsea's Harris was called 'Chopper'—should the police station implement strict prevention? Nottingham Forest's Pearce was called 'Psycho'—should the psychiatric hospital take preventive measures in advance? There are also nicknames like 'The Bulldozer', 'The Killer', 'The Butcher', 'The Dog', and 'The Donkey'. Maguire's nickname is 'The Aircraft Carrier', and Messi's nickname is 'The Little Flea'—are you being unhygienic, Messi? Football nicknames don't care about political correctness. For example, the Italian defender Gentile was born in Libya, and the media called him 'Gaddafi'. Gentile, who was born in Libya and hated Gaddafi's dictatorship, never sued the media. By this year's World Cup, Mbappe's nickname had gone completely mainstream; fans in the stands held up jerseys saying 'Dictator Mbappe', and the whole world affectionately called him 'The Dictator'. In fact, online, he wasn't just photoshopped as Mao Zedong, but as all sorts of dictators. Fans on the street wore tricolor flags with Mbappe wearing a dictator's military uniform and medals; he could be Gaddafi, he could be Mobutu, or he could be Castro. A reporter asked him, 'Do you like this nickname?' He said very relaxedly, 'The matter is clear.' Mbappe, nicknamed 'The Dictator', thinks this is just a friendly joke from fans and teammates, just for fun. Although he doesn't think 'dictator' is a good word, since the fans call me that, I'll just laugh along and play with the memes too. This is the simple thought of a star born in '98, a way of playing on the internet. But things aren't so simple when they reach China. Teasing leaders is common abroad, but when it's our turn in China, it's 'hurting national sentiment'. Even though this leader once seized our land, seized our fields, and likely even shot my grandfather, and 30 million people died in a great famine. But what 'good' people they are—you motherfucker must apologize, must take it down, must stop broadcasting. Some even claimed, 'I'll pay a million to anyone who cuts off one of Mbappe's legs.' What good people. In my early days of commenting on football, I teased the Chinese Football Association with a title like 'You are sensitive all over, everything about you is a taboo.' Now that I think about it, this is no longer just sensitivity or taboos; this is a group of deeply affectionate patients with severe Stockholm syndrome, abandoning deep-seated blood feuds to offer a loyal anthem to a deceased leader. Even in the animal kingdom, they wouldn't speak up for the beast that slaughtered their own family, so what kind of humans are these? Of course, maybe they aren't humans, but humanoids. What's wrong with making memes of leaders? Gaddafi, Stalin, Trump, Churchill, Hitler—which one hasn't been teased or made into a meme by Chinese netizens in their group chats? Look at the video below, 'Despotic Depression'—the production team actually angrily demanded the platform take it down, citing copyright infringement. Isn't that hurting the feelings of the Germans again, again, again, and again? Stalin was parodied like this and even set to the Soviet national anthem, yet we didn't see the Soviet government protest at the time. Gaddafi is the comedy staple of the global internet; musicians edited this into a dance track, it went viral worldwide, and people danced to it. Have you ever seen the governments of Libya, Russia, the US, the UK, or Germany protest against such meme parodies? They don't care enough about 'national dignity' or 'national sentiment'. By the way, I discovered that China's only female emperor, Wu Zetian, was also made into a meme by Chinese netizens that made her 'lose her mind'. Anyway, you really have lost your mind. This is clearly disrespecting the glorious Tang Dynasty, insulting our great Chinese culture, and even infringing on women's rights—hurry up and complain, hurry up and report, hurry up and make the platform take it down and apologize. It's easy to guard against foreign enemies, but hard to guard against domestic ones—traitors and lackeys. As for Kim Jong-un, Chinese netizens call him 'Kim the Third Fatty', and he is a permanent guest in our Chinese WeChat groups. By the way, North Korea did actually protest about this; it is the only foreign government in the world to have protested to China. But we've been 'Reform and Opening Up' for over 40 years—have we really returned to the level of North Korea?

So the real question is, was Mao Zedong a dictator? What is a dictator? The Encyclopædia Britannica defines a dictator as an individual who holds absolute political power in a country or region, comes to power through force or fraud, and maintains rule through terror and the suppression of basic civil rights. Friedrich and Brzezinski of Harvard University, in Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy, outline six characteristics of totalitarian dictatorship: an all-encompassing official ideology, a single-party system, state terror, a monopoly of weapons, a monopoly of mass media, and a centrally controlled planned economy. This is the most widely cited standard of totalitarianism in political science. Let us compare Mao Zedong against each of these criteria one by one to see how many dictator standards he meets.

First, Mao Zedong was an individual who held absolute political power in China. He ruled as a dictator for 33 years from 1945 until his death, with no term limits; the constitution could not restrain him, and he was even able to persecute to death Liu Shaoqi, the Chairman of the state who held the national constitution. Second, Mao Zedong came to power through force, with his famous saying that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, while fraud accompanied his entire life. The CCP repeatedly promised democracy in newspapers, fiercely criticized the Kuomintang's one-party autocracy, and promised to form a democratic government, but fulfilled none of these promises after taking power. Third, Mao Zedong relied on terror and the suppression of citizens' freedoms. Campaign after campaign—Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries, Anti-Rightist Campaign, Cultural Revolution—resulted in countless executions. Fourth, Mao Zedong established an all-encompassing official ideology: Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought; his words were known as the supreme instructions, and every person nationwide had a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong. Fifth, Mao Zedong implemented one-party autocracy. Sixth, Mao Zedong monopolized weapons; the Party commanded the gun, and the military's absolute loyalty was to Mao Zedong himself. Seventh, Mao Zedong monopolized mass media and permitted no freedom of speech, so Little Pinks should not think there was freedom of speech back then just because people could strike down certain figures or offer opinions—look at Lin Zhao and Zhang Zhixin. Lin Zhao was imprisoned at the age of 27 simply for criticizing Mao Zedong's centralized rule; she was driven mad in prison, and when she was executed by firing squad after writing blood letters, her family was even charged five cents for the bullet. Similarly, Zhang Zhixin was executed for offering minor opinions; fearing she would shout reactionary slogans or voice grievances before dying, her trachea was cut. In that era, how many people were sentenced to death simply for offering minor criticisms? Eighth, Mao Zedong implemented a planned economy, causing numerous capitalists in industry and commerce to jump from rooftops. Marshal Chen Yi even joked about how many airborne troops there were today, jumping off rooftops. Furthermore, he enforced requisitioning, state purchase and marketing, and a rationing system for food and clothing. Ninth, Mao Zedong caused mass slaughters: the Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries executed over 700,000 people, factional violence and massacres during the Cultural Revolution killed millions, and the Great Famine starved over 30 million people to death.

Surprisingly, some people have actually listed 23 merits of Mao Zedong's administration. Let us restore the historical truth to each of them one by one. First, Maoists boast that Mao Zedong achieved universal literacy, but this was not literacy; it was brainwashing. The schools taught entirely altered history, which is fake history, and the opening of any discipline had to be Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. Because of political campaigns, the gaokao was suspended for 11 years, causing a massive generational gap among Chinese intellectuals. Under Mao Zedong's rule, Chinese education fell into severe regression; otherwise, Deng Xiaoping would not have restarted the gaokao afterward, and the CCP would not have re-introduced the slogan that knowledge is power. Second, Maoists boast that Mao Zedong suppressed bandits, but under the guise of suppressing bandits and counter-revolutionaries, he killed a large number of decent and kind-hearted rural gentry. A 1954 report by the Ministry of Public Security stated that more than 710,000 people were executed, and Mao Zedong himself said on Mount Lushan in 1959 that more than 1 million people had been killed. Third, as for combating evil, under the guise of cracking down on gambling, a large number of poor people were liquidated. Look at Yu Hua's To Live and look at Ge You, and you will understand why Long Er was shot back then. Fourth, yet Yan'an's Nanniwan relied precisely on growing and trafficking opium to get through its financial difficulties. Fifth, they boast that Mao Zedong liberated the serfs of Tibet, yet Mao Zedong used the household registration system to turn peasants across the country into serfs who could not leave the land. Sixth, they boast that Mao Zedong banned brothels, yet the dance parties in Zhongnanhai were filled with young girls and young actresses from the cultural troupe; once the dancing got lively, they were pulled into the small rooms next door, turning dance partners into bed partners. Seventh, they boast that Mao Zedong launched land reform, but land reform simply meant letting peasants divide up the landlords' land, only to take the land back from the peasants using people's communes. Collectivization and the Great Leap Forward led to the Great Famine, starving 30 million people to death, and to this day land cannot be privately owned; the so-called land belonging to the state means belonging to the privileged elites. In contrast, land in Taiwan was allowed to be privately owned long ago. In 1953, old Chiang implemented the Land-to-the-Tiller program, using the gold he brought from the mainland, land bonds, and shares of state-owned enterprises to buy out land from landlords and resell it to tenant farmers, without killing a single landlord and without using any blood. Eighth, they boast that old Mao popularized rural health care. My goodness, if you watched a movie back then called Chunmiao, you would know that the so-called barefoot doctors and rural medical care only had red medicine and blue medicine. Open the medical box and look—what else was inside besides red and purple medicine? For decades, high-ranking cadres had privileged wards, and the later so-called medical insurance was also a dual-track system, whereas Taiwan launched universal health insurance in 1995, treating officials and ordinary citizens equally. Ninth, Maoists also boast that old Mao wiped out smallpox and other infectious diseases, but smallpox was jointly eradicated globally under the leadership of the WHO, not led by the CCP, and certainly not by old Mao. Tenth, they boast that old Mao wiped out malaria and other parasitic diseases. In fact, the WHO only certified and announced China's eradication of malaria in 2021, by which time old Mao had been dead for 45 years. Did you watch a time-travel drama to see him curing malaria? Eleventh, they also boast that old Mao recovered Xinjiang, which is just nonsense blabbered by people who do not understand history. Let me tell you, Xinjiang in 1949 was brought over through the uprisings of Tao Zhiyue and Burhan. Its original territory belonged to the Republic of China government, and it was already Chinese to begin with, so there is no question of recovering it. Twelfth, they boast that old Mao recovered Tibet, but Tibet was also already within the territory of the Republic of China. Thirteenth, as for building the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water conservancy project, construction on the Three Gorges Dam only began in 1994, a full 18 years after old Mao's death; he merely wrote a poem about a smooth lake emerging from high gorges, whereas during his tenure there was actually the Banqiao Dam collapse in 1975, which killed at least 100,000 people. Fourteenth, Maoists boast that old Mao established a complete industrial system, which is an even bigger joke. Under old Mao's rule back then, state-owned factories were dilapidated and inefficient, and in the 1970s they could not even manufacture a decent refrigerator. China became the world's factory and the world's top industrial chain only by joining the WTO and relying on the vigorous support of the United States and Japan. Fifteenth, Maoists boast that old Mao drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel. Have you even looked at history? That war started from the 38th parallel in the first place, and nearly 200,000 Chinese soldiers died, including Mao Zedong's own son Mao Anying, who insisted on making fried rice. So many people died, yet things went right back to the starting point. Furthermore, that war was an unjust war from the start, instigated by Stalin; China spent massive amounts of manpower and financial resources without gaining a single benefit, and citizens tightened their belts to support that war. The result of the war is that the North Korean people are still suffering bitterly to this day, while South Korea has become a developed nation with a per-capita income 2.8 times that of China. Sixteenth, Maoists also boast that old Mao defeated the Soviet Union, India, and Vietnam. Yet after defeating India, he took the initiative to withdraw from the disputed southern region, which is still in the hands of the Indians today, and not an inch of territory was reclaimed in Outer Northeast China. As for the Vietnam War, do you suffer from time-travel delusions? The Vietnam War was proactively fought by Deng Xiaoping in 1979, and had nothing to do with Mao Zedong's last testament. Deng Xiaoping launched the Vietnam War precisely to actively cozy up to the United States.

Seventeenth, Maoists also praise Mao for recovering the Xisha Islands, but the Xisha Islands were received by the Republic of China government from the Japanese. Later, when the Nationalist army retreated from Hainan because they could not defeat the People's Liberation Army, the western part of the Xisha Islands was occupied by South Vietnam. Mao Zedong took them back from South Vietnam, but in 1957, Mao gave away the Bailongwei Island, which was rich in fishery resources, to Vietnam. What is the nature of giving land to foreigners? It is treason. Eighteenth, Maoists also praise Mao Zedong for building satellites, atomic bombs, and hydrogen bombs, but the core scientists like Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian all returned from the United States and brought back a large amount of classified American technology. More importantly, while building atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, he let the common people starve, and many scientists who participated in the development were denounced and beaten to death. Nineteenth, as for the first full-range test flight of the intercontinental missile Dongfeng-5, it was in 1980, four years after Mao Zedong died. The timeline has traveled through time again and again. Twentieth, as for building nuclear submarines, that was when ordinary people had to use coupons to buy bicycles and sewing machines. Twenty-first, Maoists always praise Mao Zedong for letting China sit in the UN Security Council, but the UN Security Council seat was insisted upon by US President Roosevelt in 1943 to be given to China, held by the Republic of China, and only replaced by the People's Republic of China in 1971. If you want to thank someone, thank the Americans; it is not Mao Zedong's turn to be thanked. Maoists also praise the miracles created by Mao Zedong that no other country could achieve in a hundred years. Are you sent by a monkey to be funny? When Chinese people were starving and buying rice, cloth, and sugar with coupons, Japan became the world's second-largest economy, and South Korea and Taiwan became two of the Four Asian Tigers. In fact, the farce of these past few days was not initiated by Mbappé from beginning to end. Mao Zedong was a Chinese dictator, but idiots prove themselves to be idiots. Originally, this matter would have passed if it had been suppressed. Domestic citizens didn't know about it because they couldn't circumvent the Great Firewall, and people abroad are accustomed to mocking leaders and didn't think there was any problem. However, the relevant departments urged the Little Pinks to go on a crusade, awakening people's memories, cursing everywhere about your mother being dead, your mother this, your whole family being raped, making the whole world confirm again and again that Mao Zedong was truly a great dictator. According to the statistics on government mass killings of their own people by countries, cited most frequently by American political scientist R.J. Rummel, the CCP regime caused 76.7 million deaths between 1949 and 1987, ranking first among regimes in the 20th century. In other words, Mao Zedong was the greatest dictator and mass murderer. If you think human political scientists might have personal preferences, let's look at the statistics from major AIs. Major AIs also consider Mao Zedong an out-and-out dictator. Therefore, Mao Zedong did not do anything good for China while he was alive; his only contribution to the Chinese people was that he died.

In China, it is particularly easy to be accused of "insulting China." Some people have a "black-attracting" constitution, while some countries have an "insult-attracting" constitution. In recent years, there have been many foreign sports stars and teams accused of insulting China; let us briefly review a few. For example, Barcelona captain Carles Puyol, who has long been a Buddhist, had a Tibetan phrase tattooed on his left arm, which means "strength is in the heart, the strong can endure." When the Dalai Lama visited Barcelona in 2007, he met with him, which caused an uproar among Chinese netizens. They accused him of supporting Tibetan independence and called for a boycott of Barcelona. Online articles also listed him as a star hostile to China, until Puyol met with the Chinese consul in Barcelona, and the anger finally subsided. Then there is the American Olympic champion speed skater Joey Cheek, who initiated the Team Darfur campaign and criticized the Chinese-backed Sudanese government for massacring civilians. Consequently, two days before the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese side revoked his visa without giving any reason. There is also the famous football coach Jürgen Klopp. In 2013, Klopp said that Bayern Munich was like Chinese industry: they look at what others are doing, copy it, and rely on having more money and more people. At the time, this was considered a strong insult to China domestically, but Klopp never apologized. Then there is Daryl Morey, the general manager of the NBA's Houston Rockets, who tweeted in 2019 in support of the Hong Kong protests. CCTV stopped broadcasting NBA games for over a year, only resuming in October 2020. There is also the French football star Antoine Griezmann. In 2020, because Huawei was accused of developing a facial recognition system for Uyghurs, Griezmann voluntarily terminated his endorsement contract with Huawei and was scolded by patriotic masses in China for insulting China. Then there is the German football star Mesut Özil. In 2019, he posted a message criticizing China for persecuting Uyghurs. CCTV abruptly canceled the live broadcast of Arsenal's match. Because he was too sensitive, Chinese patriotic netizens even turned Özil into the Arabic numerals "272" to refer to him. Later, it was revealed that Arsenal was forbidden from letting him play, and he could only train alone, which forced him to leave in January 2021 in a dejected state. There is also NBA star Enes Kanter, who in 2021 wore shoes with "Free Tibet" on them and called Xi Jinping a dictator; Tencent pulled the entire season of the Boston Celtics' games. The most sensational incident involved Lionel Messi. During a friendly match in Hong Kong, he sat on the bench for the entire game. Fans in the stands chanted "Messi, Messi," but he did not play, citing an injury. After the match, he did not shake hands with the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. A few days later, however, he played for half an hour in Japan. This was seen as looking down on the Chinese people and insulting China, and the Argentina team's subsequent friendly match in Hangzhou was also canceled. In February of this year, Real Madrid player Federico Valverde reposted two comments on Instagram. One said, "Even the Chinese say he looks like a Chinese person"—if you don't understand what that means, the other said, "A piece of dental floss could block his eyes." Both were mocking the appearance of Asian people with "slanted eyes." Although he deleted the post immediately and issued an apology on his official Weibo, Chinese netizens were not buying it, saying, "You only posted this apology on our Weibo; what about your official website? Your Twitter? Your Instagram? You didn't post an apology on any of those; this is 'mainland-only'." This September, Real Madrid mentioned a mudslide and listed Tibet and Nepal together, which was criticized by Chinese state media because Nepal is a country, while Tibet is an autonomous region of China.

To be honest, among these incidents of "insulting China," some indeed carry an insulting nature, such as Valverde reposting comments mocking the "slanted eyes" of Chinese people. Others are simply differences in writing format habits. Look at the UAE's The National, which wrote "Nepal-Tibet border flood." Why don't Chinese netizens protest? Why doesn't Chinese state media criticize it? In 2022, during Hurricane Ian, the Associated Press headline was "Hurricane Ian arrives; Cuba and Florida brace for impact." No one said the US was admitting that its state of Florida wanted independence. Disaster reporting focuses more on the affected areas, not politics or the division of national borders. More "insults to China" arise because of different concepts regarding human rights, law, and freedom of speech. That is why I say some people have a "black-attracting" constitution (referring to personality), while some countries have an "insult-attracting" constitution (referring to political systems). Below, I will analyze this.

Every Chinese person is given a default setting upon birth: the century of national humiliation. From a very young age, we are told that from the Opium Wars to the burning of the Old Summer Palace, from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Eight-Nation Alliance, China was bullied by foreign powers for over a hundred years. Even now, imperialism still harbors the intention to destroy us. Therefore, since childhood, you hear that outsiders are constantly ready to bully us. When you grow up, you inevitably look at every foreigner as if they are about to bully us. We are not nurtured by genuine education; we are terrified and beaten into submission by the century of national humiliation. Indeed, we are all graduate students of the school of intimidation. And how do foreign countries educate their people? France and Britain fought the Seven Years' War and the Hundred Years' War, yet the children of both countries never attended a class on the century of national humiliation. France and Germany fought each other to the death before finally realizing that hatred must not be passed down to the next generation. So, the two countries did something earth-shattering: these bitter enemies sat down together, jointly wrote a history textbook, and handed it to their children. You heard that right—two sworn enemies sat down and compiled the exact same history textbook for their children to read. Isn't it surprising, unexpected, and thrilling? The education ministries of both countries said that developing history textbooks with identical content was intended to prevent negative emotions arising from mutual ignorance. When I first saw this text, I was almost moved to tears. Speaking of hatred education, the only ones in the world that can compare with us are North Korea and Russia. Children in Pyongyang learn from a young age to point bayonets at American soldiers. Russian kindergarten children wear military uniforms and sit in cardboard tanks painted for a parade, while middle school students learn to assemble and disassemble rifles and operate drones. In our country, it is no longer simple national humiliation education; it is an all-encompassing, dead-angle-free, immersion-style systematic engineering project, running from prenatal education to early childhood education, through nine years of compulsory education (which you could also call nine years of relic education), and on to vocational schools and universities, a systematic soul-transformation through reading books and serving the nation. These are the programs in Chinese kindergartens and school performances; even tourist attractions turn

Although our country is truly fucking awesome at reforming the soul of national humiliation education, I still want to let you see how people around the world play jokes and memes on their own and other leaders. This is Saturday Night Live in the US parodying Trump, or Saturday Night Live parodying George W. Bush, parodying the debate between Trump and Biden; France 4 parodying Chirac, Sarkozy, and Macron; British Spitting Image parodying Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet members; even the Royal Family was parodied—yes, the Royal Family was also parodied. The UK's Daily Star live-streamed a head of lettuce wearing a blonde wig, betting on whether it or Prime Minister Liz Truss would finish first; here is Johnson hanging mid-air waving a national flag and shouting for help; here are German netizens parodying Merkel; and here Britain made Trump, Putin, and Johnson all into ugly rubber puppets. Putin is parodied as a guy who loves to watch people get poisoned, alluding to him poisoning the Russian opposition, while Trump became Putin's puppet on a string, and Johnson had messy hair and made a complete mess of pandemic prevention. These parodies did not bring any sanctions or accusations of eating the rice of a country and smashing its pot, nor did they hurt the feelings of the people of any country. By the way, as the standard anti-epidemic and anti-China phrase 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people,' this sentence first appeared in an article in the People’s Daily in 1959 condemning India for infringing upon our territory. According to statistics, from 1959 to 2015, the phrase 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people' was used a total of 240 times in the People’s Daily, among which Japan hurt our feelings 96 times, the United States hurt our feelings 62 times, France hurt our feelings 16 times, India hurt our feelings 9 times, Germany hurt our feelings 3 times, and the UK hurt our feelings 1 time. The feelings of our people are just too easily hurt.

Yet Little Pinks go on crusades everywhere, leaving no blade of grass growing wherever they go. They call Koreans bangzi, Japanese little days, Indians a-san, Filipinos flying monkeys, and the UK the rogue country. When Shinzo Abe was assassinated, the Chinese internet was full of cheers, and some even set off firecrackers. When the riots caused by the George Floyd incident broke out in the US, Hu Xijin said this was a beautiful scenery line. To curse France, the Chinese internet specially coined a term ru-fa, and during the French riots, someone on Weibo actually said to find a good spot to watch the excitement. Little Pinks said, 'Hey Mbappe, you parody our Chairman Mao, can I parody your Napoleon?' Red Emperor, please take a good look at this world; foreigners parodying Napoleon is a common occurrence, and the French themselves laugh until their legs can't close. The American comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure depicts two high school students taking a time machine to kidnap Napoleon to California for all sorts of parodies. And the most self-righteous yet illogical saying is 'tit for tat,' 'eating China's rice and smashing China's pot is absolutely unacceptable, if you want to make China's money, you have to obey.' Oh, that's strange, clearly both sides are in equal commercial cooperation, what do you mean by eating China's rice? Why don't you get Li Yi to do the endorsement? Why don't you get those inept members of the Chinese national football team who can kick the ball into their own goal to do the endorsement—this national football team made a mistake, passing the ball back and into their own goal, wow, that's interesting. Aren't you just eyeing Mbappe's huge influence and skill? Treating equal commercial cooperation as giving someone food to eat—with this nouveau riche mindset and taste, are you fucking keeping a mistress? Can't Mbappe say you fucking consumed my influence and smashed my pot? You can purchase someone's influence and the cooperation is equal and free, why should everyone of their words, deeds, and the depths of their soul be governed by your rules?

When China was hit by the pandemic, Kylian Mbappé and his Paris Saint-Germain teammates wore jerseys with the words "Stay Strong China" to support the country, accompanied by photos featuring the five-star red flag and the number ten. When PSG came to China for a tour, it poured with rain, yet Mbappé stayed on the pitch, signing autographs for Chinese fans one by one. This was because on that day, several Chinese fans were holding signs saying "I am from China," and Mbappé ran over to sign for the Chinese fans first before signing for fans from other countries. Therefore, one should not turn hostile at the slightest disagreement. Whether Mao Zedong was a dictator is a matter of public consensus worldwide, but it was limited to actual political discourse. Now, you have made it known all over the world that Chairman Mao was a dictator; you have made him a global topic, and now the whole world knows about it. Honestly, you messed up; even the French are mocking you. A group of people who dare not publicly state on domestic social media what exactly Mbappé said that was "insulting to China," yet use a VPN to go abroad to crusade against foreigners for insulting China—doesn't this just prove that you live in a dictatorship? Well, it started with Chairman Mao, and now you've dragged Chairman Xi into it as well. Nowadays, some people don't oppose someone because they truly disagree with them, but because they are impoverished, ignorant, and see no hope in life; they need to find a safe target to oppose, so they found Mbappé. I see many people saying, "Can we just let him go because Mbappé apologized?" No, he must pay a heavy price. But he is French and doesn't play in the Chinese Super League, and his annual advertising income is more than ten times his income from China. What price can you make him pay? Of course, if it makes you happy, we can fantasize about ordering Mbappé to apologize to the Chinese people. We could make him buy A-shares, buy Huawei cars, and buy Xiaomi phones. Driving a Huawei AITO, using a Xiaomi phone for navigation, driving all the way while shouting, "Forcefully reunify Taiwan, blacklist Kevin Tsai, and flatten Lai Ching-te," driving all the way to the holy land in the hearts of the Chinese people: Shaoshan Chong, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province. Seeing this sacred place from afar, this lost brother who has found his way would be moved to tears, kneeling down to Chairman Mao's old home, as a holy anthem rings out in the air.