Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping kicked off the Lunar New Year—ushering in the Year of the Horse—with a message dripping in irony, urging his oppressed masses to embrace the animal’s vigor, strength, and resilience. It’s a classic bit of communist theater: Xi, whose regime has crushed dissent in Hong Kong, genocidally targeted Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and maintains one of the world’s most suffocating gun control regimes, preaching personal fortitude from his perch atop a one-party police state. While everyday Chinese citizens are disarmed and surveilled into submission—firearms ownership is a privilege reserved for the People’s Liberation Army and select loyalists—Xi’s pep talk sounds like a veiled call to arms for the state apparatus, not the people.
For the 2A community, this is a stark reminder of why the Second Amendment isn’t just an American quirk but a bulwark against exactly this kind of top-down tyranny. Xi’s horse metaphor evokes the raw power of a stallion—unfettered, swift, and untamable—yet in CCP-controlled China, that vigor is monopolized by the regime’s 2 million-strong military, armed to the teeth while civilians face zero-tolerance gun laws that make even owning a slingshot a risky proposition. Contrast that with the U.S., where armed citizens embody that very resilience Xi admires from afar, deterring authoritarian overreach. His words unwittingly highlight the perils of disarmament: a resilient populace is one that can defend itself, not one reliant on the state’s mercy.
The implications ripple globally as China’s economy stumbles and Xi ramps up saber-rattling over Taiwan. If strength means bulking up the PLA with hypersonic missiles and fighter jets, the free world—especially 2A patriots—must double down on readiness. Xi’s New Year platitudes aren’t just hollow; they’re a propaganda nudge for his subjects to endure hardships without rebellion, proving once again that an armed citizenry is the ultimate check on dictators who romanticize power they hoard exclusively. Stay vigilant, stock up, and train—because in the Year of the Horse, real vigor comes from the barrel of a lawfully owned firearm, not Beijing’s bulletin board.
