What does China's President-for-life Xi Jinping watch at night while in his jammies sipping Yoo-hoo and also contemplating just how, precisely, he can savagely crush the Taiwanese peoples' independence and liberty? This.
An American who helps to sell US brands in China's e-commerce describes this gripping, presidentially pleasing broadcast by the name of "In the Name of the People":
"[It] is a primetime drama about a local prosecutor’s efforts to root out corruption in a modern-day, though fictional, Chinese city. Beyond the anti-corruption narrative, the series also goes into local [Communist Party] politics as some of the leaders are (you guessed it) corrupt and others are simply bureaucratic time- servers, guarding their own privileges and status without actually helping the people they purport to serve.
"In addition to the core anti-corruption message, the series boasts one of Xi’s other main themes, 'common prosperity,' a somewhat elastic term that usually means the benefits of prosperity should be shared throughout all segments of society. This is a reassuring message to those in the middle and working class, who might only be indirectly benefiting from China’s years of sustained economic growth."
The salesman adds this delightfully accurate line: "It is also a nice way of side-stepping Marxism and class warfare without explicitly repudiating it." Which, of course, is what China's top leaders have been doing since Deng Xiaoping.