This Guardian/Observer journalist blames the totalitarian hubris in China on Xi Jinping. Maybe the journalist's own left-wing ideology prevents him from calling out communism per se, but at least he is trying to get to to the bottom of things and that counts as something:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/chairman-xi-seeks-only-to-purge-and-subjugate-that-is-his-weakness