Is the Chinese flag a communist flag?

A couple of days ago, during the Epic Piano Livestream, our favourite main
character, Newton Lang, accused Dr.

K of being a racist and of discriminating against another country.

It all started when Dr.

K asked our friends whether they were in the Chinese Communist Party, thereby
escalating the whole situation to the point that now it has become an international
geopolitical struggle involving Winnie the Pooh being raised, stuck speeches being
given, and the St.

Pancras piano turning into a literal freaking icon of freedom of speech.

So is that discrimination, a misunderstanding, or just yet another Newton Lang,

boy-cry, wolf "Stop touching her!

Don't touch her!

Please, do not touch her!

Please, you are not the same age" type saga right there?

Well, as it turns out, as with most things in life, it's actually a bit more
complicated than that.

Let's dive right in.

On one hand, the Chinese national flag is symbolic of the nation of China, and I
think that's what Newton was getting at when he was saying that, well, not all
Chinese people are communists.

But there's a bit more complication than that.

For the record, the Chinese flag wasn't always what it was.

When the People's Republic of China took power in 1949, basically the flag was
changed.

So it eventually transformed into the red-coloured flag that you have right now.

Now you might think to yourself, "Since the Chinese flag is simply a national
symbol, and it doesn't say anything about communism, does that mean that Dr.

K is just an ignorant westerner then?"

The reality is that interpreting the Chinese flag is complex, and here's why.

Every flag is both a national symbol, as well as a series of images or ideas that
are connected essentially to the historical formulation of the country itself.

Is it a communist symbol though?

Let us seek the guidance of the divine.

The wonderful world of Wikipedia tells us the national flag of the People's
Republic of China, also known as the Five Star Red Flag, is a Chinese red field
with five golden stars charged at the canton.

It has been the national flag of China since the foundation of the People's
Republic of China on 1st October 1949.

The red represents the Chinese communist revolution.

The five stars and their relationships to each other represent the unity of four
social classes of Chinese people, symbolized by four smaller stars under the
Chinese communist party, symbolized by the large star.

I don't know about you man, but like that seems pretty communist to me.

So if we look at it in a broad sense, that flag can be viewed both as a communist

flag, and also as a national flag.

That was a design choice that was put in place so that people would associate the
nation with the Chinese communist party.

If you love your country, then you love the party.

If you love the party, then you love the country.

That's essentially how that played out.

But coming back to these news for a moment, you have to remember that these people
are literally migrants from China.

They're living in London, they're enjoying their lives overseas at the moment.

If communism were such an incredible experience for them, then maybe they wouldn't
be doing so.

For all you know, they probably don't align completely with the communist ideology
in the very first place.

But it's probably not something that they could have actually mentioned in video.

I mean, honestly, even if you were to watch the video, you could probably conclude
that maybe Newton actually wasn't a communist, or a little pink for that matter.

It's like if he really were a little pink, I think he would really just go out
there and start screaming party slogans and stuff like that.

But the fact that he didn't do that, it makes me think that our boy Newton is just
a disrespectful sod, and that this has nothing to do with communism at all.

As far as interpreting the flag goes, I would say that it is unavoidable that you
would interpret the Chinese flag as a symbol of communism, because that is what it
is.

It's not the original hammer and sickle communist flag, but it is a communist flag.

That's a fact that Chinese people have to deal with, even if they don't want to
personally admit it.

Still though, I understand where Newton came from, at least in this situation, and
why he responded in the way that he did.
It doesn't excuse any of his bad behaviours from before.

It was emotional, rude, and arguably tremendously stupid behaviour, but it made
sense to me why he immediately just went out there and started accusing Dr K of
discrimination.

It's true that essentially the flag is linked to a particular ideology, but
whatever the situation right there, everybody has the right to decide how they look
at their own country, how to interpret its legacy, and to think about all of those
things.

Each person who is a citizen of a country has the right to think from within
themselves about how they want to conceive their role as a person of that nation.

Whether that's going to change anything, or whether that change is even something
on the cards, is a separate matter altogether.

But that right, I think, is what our friend, badly behaving as he was, felt was
violated on that day in St Pancras Station.

But one more thing.

How right is he that Brandon Kavanaugh, Dr K, is a racist?

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