Li Yongyan: Chinese media: Whom are they kidding?:

according to the Chinese media, Washington is hell-bent on first destroying China and then going on to dominate the world...

Totalitarianism is propped up by two things: force and lies. It works like this: "We know you don't believe, but we make sure you don't voice your dissent. So we can keep spinning out 'Newspeak'. And we are under no pressure whatsoever to explain or account for anything that we say."...

So in the end, the self-serving rhetoric becomes self-indulging, and self-deluding.