https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjnkOsDAAfo

Nixon was right about the Chinese - it's not propaganda they're infatuated with but rather the security of their country. This is why Deng Xiaoping had to move away from Mao's ideology of hard right in order to find stability for the Chinese people in general.

If we were to place Xi Jinping in this situation - he is using scare tactics in his propaganda machine as a way to increase China's security. Because his fears is that Taiwan is a massive overseas proxy naval base for the USA thanks to the current base in Okinawa, Central Asia (Uzbekistan), Philippines and Australia. Xinjiang's threat was due to an Islamist terrorist attack back in the 90s to gain independence and reuse the old name "East Turkestan" after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

All the ruse about eradicating poverty, spending billions on highspeed trains and building multimillion dollar ghost cities is basically to put the Western guard up just in case they decide to intrude China's territory "piece by piece". It's basically nonsensical fears driven by the need to impress its citizens that they don't need to migrate overseas in droves because China has "everything" that the West does.