It’s tempting for me to say this isn’t a surprise.

If nothing else, the age of Trump has made abundantly clear that the post-World War II political consensus in America is over.

Just over a decade ago and months after Xi Jinping assumed power, the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party published the “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere,” otherwise known as Document Number 9 (you can find a translation here at ChinaFile).