The PRC claims to have created the democracy of the 21st century. Liberal democracy in the United States and Europe, which is threatened by populism and instability, is being replaced by a technocratic, authoritarian democracy that creates prosperity and security efficiently and on the basis of data, according to propaganda from Beijing.
To achieve such as "people's democracy," as it's called in the official jargon, the CCP has designated the quote attributed to Lenin "trust is good, control is better" as itsraison d'etre.
