Xi Van Fleet fled Mao’s China, only to watch decades later the same patterns emerging in American schools, universities, and politics. In this wide-ranging interview, the “Mao’s America” and “Made in America” author breaks down how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used censorship, forced conformity, and the promise of “free stuff” to seize total control and argues those same tactics are now playing out in the United States, from campus indoctrination to the rise of self-described socialists in Congress.
From higher education to the Pentagon to Hollywood, Marxist ideology hasn’t just arrived in America—it’s already embedded, Xi Van Fleet says. Drawing on her own experience under CCP rule, she explains how ideological capture spreads quietly through institutions long before most people notice….