The Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army have for several years understood the role that video games could play in their policy of communication, recruitment, and even training for its soldiers. But beyond these purely media aspects, video games are also a formidable ideological vector, and can, in this sense, represent a danger for the future of China, because the majority of "warlike" video games to which the Chinese military have gotten into the habit of playing to relax come from Western studios, and advocate values such as democracy and freedom, which do not correspond to the ideology supported by the Chinese Communist Party. They can even, therefore, prove subversive for those who play them.
It is in any case the thesis presented by Li Xiang, a professor and chief policy advisor of Peking University, and also a CCP executive, on the occasion of the Annual Conference of the Political Consultative Committee. The latter also called on the PLA and Chinese video game publishers to work together to produce military action and combat video games in a Chinese and non-Western historical framework, and which would respect the advocated ideology. by the PCC. These games could thus not only be used by the military in their free time, but also by young Chinese who could find a vocation for the profession of arms there.
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