China is focusing on "discourse power". Shore up defences

In China's strategic lexicon, might is right but might is essential to earn the "right to speak". President Xi Jinping's messaging both to Chinese citizens and the world, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its march to the next century, seemed to stress on this theme repeatedly. Aside from the obvious deification of the Xi era and CCP, if one breaks down the centenary's themes to, say, bumper stickers, the following would sum it up — we have arrived; we will not be bullied; the party is always right/the party is forever.In Chinese frameworks, a country's huayuquan or right…