Recently on our YouTube channel we covered Presidents Trumps visit to China as part of the latest summit. You can check that out here.

But more importantly for this piece, we want to talk about the truth about China and the reality of the Second Cold War is here.

The Dragon in the Room: What America Refuses to See About China

There's a strange silence in the room whenever someone brings up China's body count.

We teach our kids about the Holocaust. We have museums, films, and memorial days dedicated to the horrors of Nazi Germany. And rightfully so. But mention Mao Zedong — a man whose policies killed somewhere between 45 and 80 million people — and you'll get a blank stare from most American college students. That silence isn't accidental. It's cultivated. And it's dangerous.

Most likely, it is a product of Howard Zinn’s Marxist retelling of world history but that is for a different post for a different day.

Nugget of wisdom #1: The Bloodiest Regime in Human History

The Chinese Communist Party has the most catastrophic human rights record of any government in modern history, and most Americans couldn't tell you why.

The Great Leap Forward (1958–1962): Mao's forced collectivization program triggered a famine that killed an estimated 45 million people in four years — the deadliest famine in recorded history. Let that sink in. IN. RECORDED. HISTORY.

The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976): A decade of ideological purges, torture, forced labor, and public executions that destroyed an entire generation of Chinese intellectuals. Most likely another 20 million killed during this time.

Tiananmen Square (1989): The Chinese government massacred its own pro-democracy students, then spent the next 35 years erasing it from the historical record

Uyghur Genocide (ongoing): Over one million Uyghur Muslims currently held in "re-education" camps — what the State Department has formally called a genocide. That's happening now. In 2026.

Tibet: A systematic cultural and religious erasure spanning seven decades, targeting a Buddhist civilization that simply refused to disappear

These aren't footnotes. They are the defining features of a regime that has never faced a Nuremberg moment. The CCP didn't fall. It survived. It thrived. And now it runs the second largest economy on earth.

As Niall Ferguson has put it. This is Cold War II.

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