Overall, the left represents progress, while the right represents conservatism.
Progress means rejecting the ideas of the previous generation, while conservatism means accepting them; this applies to both China and the United States.
However, the right in the United States has consistently upheld conservative thoughts and principles since the country’s founding.
In contrast, China has long been undergoing reform; ideas proposed in the modern era are considered left compared to the late imperial times, but modern ideas are even more left-leaning than those of the recent past, making the recent past seem right-leaning.
The result is that Chinese thought has continuously moved left and has not maintained a right-wing stance; the right is often the left of the previous era.
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