Mao isn’t worshipped. Maybe in very rural areas. Maybe literally today today as the politics have shifted a bit since Xi wanted to glorify the past again and that has brought out a bunch of MCGA crowd. But a decade ago you could buy a lot of Mao memed tshirts in cities.

Mao is still recognized as the conqueror. His reputation as the person who united modern China and established the communist party is unassailable and that won’t ever change because that narrative is baked into the legitimacy of the CCP. However his policies from long time ago is no longer heralded as successful in public opinion.

Close. But luckily his powers were eventually dissipated and his clique dissembled. Unlike the Kims, nobody saw Mao as a literal God who invented stuff, smashed Olympic records, or whatnot. I think Mao goes down in a bucket of leaders who conquered but could not rule.

Yes. In Chinese history a lot of revolts and brutal revolutions were carried out in the name of the son of Heaven. They were just cults rallied around a single person that they see as a deity. Us Chinese just like every other human are highly susceptible to following some divine being to righteousness but just used as political tools. Falungong today fits that description.

Traitors can be a label that’s easily applied to… guess who, your political opponents.

I mean who knows the truth. Not me. I’m not gonna guess what I don’t know

It’s no longer about “giving up the invasion”

The war will not end until Ukraine has taken back all lands lost plus Crimea mark my words. Russia wishes the war could end in the current state of territory.