WATCH: Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Warns That U.S. Is Under Authoritarian Control…
by Katie Daviscourt at The Post Millinium
Famed Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei warned Americans during an interview with PBS last week that the United States is already under authoritarian control and called out “wokeness” as similar to Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
“In the United States, with today’s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian,” Weiwei said. “In many ways, you’re already in the authoritarian state. You just don’t know it.”
PBS host Margaret Hoover attempted to get the Chinese dissident to denounce former President Trump as an authoritarian but Weiwei rejected that notion. He said those that align with “political correctness” are the authoritarians.
“Many things happening today in US can be compared to Cultural Revolution in China,” Weiwei explained. “Like people trying to be unified in a certain political correctness. That is very dangerous.”
“You just think you’re purified by certain ideas that you agree with it. That is posing dangers to society, to an extreme divided society,” Weiwei added.
Weiwei said that the current political state of China has…
