Whilst China’s track record is far from perfect I really thought that they were doing a good job with videogames, that is until very recently when I made a disturbing discovery. It really seems that Comrade Xi has become something of a hypocrite since his halcyon days of venerating the arts and the momentum that they lend to the people’s movements. As it turns out the CPC have forced MiHoYo (creators of Genshin Impact) to censor some of their prominent characters in an act tantamount to defanging the tiger that is Genshin Impact.

In Xi’s famous essay on art, literature and politics in the wake of the tianemmen square “color revolution” he does great work in elucidating how art underpins politics and drives it forward. Today Xi has gone back on his word. Just as how according to Dialectical Materialism the arts and politics are inseparable, so too are Jean and her cleavage, a union of opposites according to dialectics, clearly Comrade Mao should have given Xi a better education in dialectics rather than sending him to work in the countryside. Maybe then we could have avoided this “Great Leap Backwards.”

Xi’s hypocracy is on full display, he decries former chinese cultural policy: “8 plays for 800 million people is wholly inadequate,” so how is it XI that we must have 1 bust size for 1.4 billion people? I’ve talked so far in quite broadstrokes so let me give a more concrete example: Outrider Amber is a classic example of the patriotic minds at MiHoYo expressing their adoration and support for the new recruits of the PLA who wish to support their party and country against the slimy genocidal US empire. It is unfathomable that Xi would want to suppress such bossoming and passionate spirit. Another quote from Xi that has “aged like milk” concerns the consequences of their own present actions (for which they condemned their predecessors). XI says: “Excessively integrating literature and art into political struggle binds their hands and feet, and turns them into a mere echo of politics.” Indeed it binds their hands and feet and dare I say it comrade Xi, their chests too.

It would be remiss of me not address the elephant in the room. MiHoYo clearly designed genshin impact as the revolutionary counterpart to Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild which features shockingly little of its female characters, to tear away or cover up or elsewise dilute its revolutionary aspects serves only to weaken the antithesis and thereby the synthesis that is genshin impact, in doing so the CPC have also blunted an important revolutionary instrument of its workers against Western Hegemony.

Despite what you may think I am well versed in chinese revolutionary theory, so I understand that providing criticism without any opportunity for the recipient to improve or otherwise develop as a communist is pointless and reactionary, however, I think we need only look to the past for answers. If Mao has failed us then there is only one other figure who could possibly enlighten us, Deng, “Leadership doesn’t mean handing out administrative orders and demanding that literature and art serve immediate, short-range political goals.” The censorship of Jean and Amber is certainly the type of short-range goal Deng had in mind. Perhaps Comrade Xi could learn a thing or two about leadership from Grand Master Jean. It’s such a shame to see the direction that the CPC is heading this trend essentially amounts to the destruction of beauty and the desecration of art in the name thereof and I’m sure Venti would agree with me, that Amber’s boobs have become the unceasing roar of the people, the immortal song of the times. In 1949 the mountains which the CPC had to remove were Feudalism and Imperialism, today they are the left and right teat.