The Chinese government through the ruling party CCP has devised a way of maintaining stability and status quo. The leadership of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to use Chinese nationalism (minzuzhuyi) to legitimize its role (Hyun & Kim, 2014). It has used education system and the media to maintain a particular vision of China and its future. However, pressure has continued to amount towards embracement of patriotism (Hyun & Kim, 2014). The people opposed to nationalism argue that, nationalism is purely a narrow ideology mainly skewed towards a certain ethnic group. Although Chinese state remains powerful, it is not capable of exercising all-pervasive powers of Chinese society that was enjoyed prior to emergence of nationalism. However, the government is finding it difficult to maintain the status quo, and control over the society, especially die to the new types of media and the Internet. The leadership is under fear because the public continues to put pressure over patriotic concern, such as the need for national reunification with Taiwan or push towards holding Japan accountable over past abuses on China (Hyun & Kim, 2014).
Notably, the government of China has mastered the art of using nationalism in a bid to hold on to power. The government knows how to appeal and win trust of the citizenry through nationalism by making it clear that, its major goal is mainly on territorial sovereignty and independence. This approach and ideology has been utilized by most Chinese regimes and little evidence is available to indicate much variation of this goal. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has focused mainly on nationalism to maintain the political power monopoly since the time of Mao Zedong (Hyun & Kim, 2014). The party has used nationalism to claim it deserves to remain in power, as it has managed to guard China from threats and humiliations from within and abroad. Even after the demise of Mao, CCP continues to campaign for the narrative that it led the country in war against Japan.
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References
Hyun, K. D., & Kim, J. (2014). The role of new media in sustaining the status quo: online political expression, nationalism, and system support in China. Journal of Information, Communication & Society. Volume 18 - Issue 7
