IIRC, there are Maoist groups who are said to take orders from Beijing
This is untrue.
One of the things that makes Maoists Maoists is that they don’t like the modern PRC. They believe that Deng Xiaoping and his successors were ‘capitalist roaders’ who ended socialism in China.
Compared to Marxist-Leninists who generally believe that China is still on a socialist path of development, and that the Reform and Opening Up initiated by Deng Xiaoping is akin to the Soviet New Economic Policy, or other instances of socialist States courting foreign investment.
Meanwhile, China has a broad policy of “Non-interference”, where it doesn’t engage in backing non-state actors. The one notable exception to this, isn’t any communist insurgency, but the United Wa State Army, in Myanmar. They get Chinese backing because China sees it as beneficial to its interests to have a well funded proxy on its border, to act as a buffer between itself, amd a volatile neighbor. Not because of any ideological affinity.
There are a number of Maoist movement in southern Asia, and they all have a pretty antagonistic line against the PRC, because the PRC as the major geopolitical player in the region, is doing business with the governments they’re fighting, instead of them.
The situation was similar in Nepal, though after the monarchy was overthrown in 2006, the Maoists, or at least their leadership, only half-completed the revolution, by entering into a liberal Parliamentary power sharing system which as done fuck all to govern for all that time.
Perhaps, since the ML and Liberal parties are the ones taking the fall for this, the more radical elements of the Maoist movement rearm? That’s not a foregone conclusion though, and it certainly won’t happen with the help of Beijing.
Hope this revolution goes better than the Russian and Iranian ones.
Are there possible leaders in Western exile who could return home and take over? /s
IIRC, there are Maoist groups who are said to take orders from Beijing.
This is untrue.
One of the things that makes Maoists Maoists is that they don’t like the modern PRC. They believe that Deng Xiaoping and his successors were ‘capitalist roaders’ who ended socialism in China.
Compared to Marxist-Leninists who generally believe that China is still on a socialist path of development, and that the Reform and Opening Up initiated by Deng Xiaoping is akin to the Soviet New Economic Policy, or other instances of socialist States courting foreign investment.
Meanwhile, China has a broad policy of “Non-interference”, where it doesn’t engage in backing non-state actors. The one notable exception to this, isn’t any communist insurgency, but the United Wa State Army, in Myanmar. They get Chinese backing because China sees it as beneficial to its interests to have a well funded proxy on its border, to act as a buffer between itself, amd a volatile neighbor. Not because of any ideological affinity.
There are a number of Maoist movement in southern Asia, and they all have a pretty antagonistic line against the PRC, because the PRC as the major geopolitical player in the region, is doing business with the governments they’re fighting, instead of them.
The situation was similar in Nepal, though after the monarchy was overthrown in 2006, the Maoists, or at least their leadership, only half-completed the revolution, by entering into a liberal Parliamentary power sharing system which as done fuck all to govern for all that time.
Perhaps, since the ML and Liberal parties are the ones taking the fall for this, the more radical elements of the Maoist movement rearm? That’s not a foregone conclusion though, and it certainly won’t happen with the help of Beijing.