tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40361794542169321342024-02-20T21:21:41.714-08:00Chris Harry's China BlogA collection of my own writings and translations relating to China: topics mostly include Chinese politics, culture, and history. The main aim of this blog is to present news and views primarily from Chinese language sources such as newspapers and magazines, as an alternative to mainstream reportage on China from Western press sources.Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-51616944492495837472020-08-15T20:41:00.001-07:002020-08-16T00:29:59.650-07:00A Brief Anatomy of the CCP <p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Written by Chris Harry </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Co-moderator of China Debate)</span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Inspired by members’ responses to the inaugural China Debate Survey on Reddit, I have grouped their top 3 adjectives to describe the CCP under four main categories, then applied them to construct a brief description and analysis of the main features and characteristics of the Chinese Communist Party. </span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The CCP’s Political orientation </b></span></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The first grouping of adjectives represents a broad outline of the </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">CCP’s </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">form of governance and its position on the political spectrum: </i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Pseudo-leftist, tyrannical, fascist, dictatorial, imperial, far-left, centralised</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>At its core, China is a fascist party-state which imposes authoritarian hierarchical rule strictly opposed to democracy or liberalism. China is run by a dictatorial elite under an absolute ruler who demands unquestioning obedience and enforces subservience by means of tyrannical oppression. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Many aspects of today’s China are a continuation of its imperial history. The CCP lays claim to the historical territories controlled by the Qing dynasty, which was established by Manchurian invaders from beyond China’s Northern border. Based on this claim, the CCP is expansionist by definition, as it seeks to regain control over a foreign historical empire significantly larger than China’s current geographical size, and which included vast swathes of territory outside of what had traditionally constituted China for over three thousand years. This imperial stance toward foreign relations explains much of Communist China’s historical border clashes with Russia, India, China and Vietnam, as well as its current attempt to usurp ninety-percent of the South China Sea, in addition to frequent naval and air incursions against Taiwan and Japan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP regime, itself, is mostly run by a privileged class of Communist ‘aristocratic’ families whose power, wealth and special status is passed down hereditarily to their descendants who are above the law, much the same as the elite in feudal times. And like all empires of the past, China is heavily centralised in terms of its power structure and the party’s complete control over land, resources, the economy, politics, military affairs, the legal system, culture, society, thought, education, and all other forms of media and expression. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Some would place Communism on the far-left of the political spectrum as a more puritanical and ideologically-centred version of Socialism dedicated to worldwide revolution, whereas others proffer that the Chinese Communist party is actually pseudo-leftist, as it claims to be a Marxist-Leninist Socialist state, but in reality tends to be more exploitative against its own people than most so-called Capitalist countries around the world today. At the same, the CCP offers much less, on average, in terms of social welfare for its ordinary citizens. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP’s domestic exploitation is now expanding beyond its own borders in the form of economic colonisation of poor developing nations and the plundering of their resources. So much for world revolution! Historically speaking, recall that Germany’s fascist regime during WWII was run by the National Socialist Party. We should also remember that Karl Marx advocated for individual freedom, as well as freedom of the press, whereas Communist China is diametrically opposed to both of these freedoms, as well as any other freedoms on principle. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The CCP’s world view</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Adjectives placed in this second grouping reflect the CCP’s perception of the world and the underlying motivations underpinning its actions and behavioural parameters:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Imperious, racist, nationalistic, rogue, close-minded, hyper-sensitive, power-hungry, reactionary</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP’s imperious outlook and sense of utter entitlement stems from a traditionally close-minded and nationalistic sense of superiority intrinsic to Chinese culture during much of China’s feudal dynastic past. In many aspects, it also mirrors the Soviet Union’s ambitions of global hegemony and emerges as an ideological and geopolitical successor to the failed Soviet empire. The CCP’s extreme and zero-sum mentality has been further bolstered by the complete subjugation of its own citizens, a steady rise in power and wealth, and its rapidly increasing influence across the globe. The West’s appeasement policy toward China over the past few decades also inflates the impression of China’s rising strength and status in world affairs while providing positive feedback to reinforce the CCP’s own belief in its inexorable path toward surpassing the world’s preeminent superpower. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>In addition to a traditionally racist and Sinocentric world view, the CCP actively pursues a fantastic and delusional narrative of its Marxist-Leninist mission to eliminate and replace Western Liberal-democracy and a Western-based world order with a ‘Chinese model’ of governance. In order to achieve this goal of global dominance, it is also committed to the dilution and obliteration of all religion, philosophy, culture, as well as any other form of thought which challenges or conflicts with CCP ideology. This is what drives the CCP to engage in the steady infiltration and erosion of international institutions and democratic societies, whose existence undermine the legitimacy of China’s Communist regime. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP is motivated by an all-consuming and power-hungry outlook toward the world which precludes the possibility of peaceful co-existence, compromise, or equality with other nations, let alone other political parties, institutions, associations or organisations within or beyond its borders. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The fact that the CCP rules over and plunders China arbitrarily and unfettered by laws or rules, is also clearly reflected in its dismissal of internationals laws, customs, and conventions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>As a rogue operator, the CCP refuses to be bound by international rules or norms. At the same time, it proactively seeks to undermine the current world order for its own advantage. On a societal level, the CCP is a reactionary and ultraconservative syndicate which opposes social progress or liberalism, yet fully embraces the weaponisation of science and technology for financial gain and to consolidate its own monopoly on power. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Since the CCP lacks a legitimate basis for its rule over China as an unelected dictatorship, it is hyper-sensitive toward even the slightest criticism of its leadership. The Communist regime reacts swiftly and sharply to the exposure of the innumerable lies it must constantly spin in order to maintain an alternate reality fabricated by party propaganda. Party propaganda creates a bubble which envelops its population and shields them from objective reality, so as to convince them of the inevitability, superiority and invincibility of the Chinese Communist Party, whilst concealing its many weaknesses, countless transgressions, rampant corruption, and constant abuses of power. This aggressive and often hysterical response to criticism or the exposure of its countless lies, stems from the fact that any measure of accountability, transparency, or effective supervision of the Communist regime could easily puncture or compromise the propaganda bubble that serves as its most important tool for maintaining illegitimate governance over 1.4 billion Chinese citizens. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>On the one hand, this hyper-sensitivity is a genuinely intense reaction that reveals the regime’s fundamental fragility. On the other hand, it is also a deliberate strategy to quickly counter any challenge to its rule or legitimacy. The fierceness of its reaction immediately raises the bar for individuals or groups by intimidating anyone who dares to openly reject or accuse the party-state, thus undermining the credibility of its propaganda. This bullying tactic, so frequently applied by the CCP, is an attempt to avoid any hard facts and evidence from being presented which contradict its false version of reality or reveal its misdeeds and shortcomings. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Most people are reluctant to pursue an argument with a crazed lunatic screaming and raging at them simply because they called him out for throwing a candy wrapper on the street. The lunatic has instantly raised the level of conflict so high, it is not seen as worth demanding that he take responsibility for littering. Now scale this behaviour up to the level of a second-tier superpower with a method to their madness and you have the CCP. Over time, everyone grows accustomed to avoiding or ignoring a frenzied and combative lunatic like the CCP, which simply encourages it to engage in an ever more irrational, aggressive and hysterical manner whenever it meets with criticism or faces obstacles in its path. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP’s hyper-sensitive disposition also meshes with the regime’s heavily nationalistic education system, which promotes a binary us-versus-them mode of perceiving the world among its citizens. The Communist regime then combines nationalism with reverence, obedience to, and what the CCP perversely refers to as ‘love’ for the party, such that those who oppose the party are designated as traitors, while faithful followers of the party are praised as patriots. In this way, not only can the party justify imprisoning, abusing and disappearing dissidents or critics, it can then also force every other citizen to stand on the side of loyalty, or at the very least, feign obedience to the party. Moreover, this nationalistic orientation to education and propaganda throughout all forms of media, helps to prevent or discourage Chinese citizens from trusting, befriending, or interacting with foreigners. Chinese people learn not to cross the line set by the party against sharing any information about China with the world which the regime deems sensitive – essentially any information about China that paints a less than perfect picture of the country or of party rule. At the same time, nationalistic propaganda is used to further distort reality, so as to accentuate China’s advantages, as well as to portray Communist rule as providing stability, progress and prosperity to China, while presenting the West as decadent, chaotic, economically unstable, hegemonic, and on the verge of societal and moral collapse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>In more recent years, this nationalistic red line has now extended to include anyone inside or outside of China who suggests that anything might ever be wrong in the land of the Chinese Dream under Emperor Xi’s exalted reign. Then the hyper-sensitive nationalistic trigger sets off the party on a feverish nationwide campaign to insult, attack and boycott any nation, individual or ethnic group deemed to be an enemy of China, i.e. enemy of the CCP. These ideologically-driven hate campaigns represent an active brainwashing experience which helps to strengthen the narrative of China versus the world in the minds of the participants, whereby the regime requires that all patriots must rally behind the party in order to protect the nation and the pride of the Chinese people, i.e. the honour and prestige of the party. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>One of the gravest side effects of all the propaganda lies, ideological and nationalistic indoctrination so pervasive throughout all levels of society, culture and the media under CCP rule, is that even party officials and regime leaders themselves begin to believe in their own lies and the party’s make-believe version of reality. This simply serves to further enhance and perpetuate the CCP’s twisted, antagonistic and paranoid vision of the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP is also a rogue actor by design, as it is categorically opposes the common practices or norms of behaviour shared by modern, civilised nations that would limit it in anyway or prevent it from maximising its own interests by the slightest degree. The party’s perspective on the world is essentially a negative struggle for power, wealth and dominance. The term ‘struggle’ is at the core of CCP ideology and is one of the most frequently used words in the party’s lexicon. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Any group or individual outside of the party – and by extension its control – is considered an adversary to be bribed, threatened, neutralised or exterminated. The concept of a win-win has never existed in the minds of CPP leaders. If we were to reimagine the CCP as a human being, such an individual might well be described as a paranoid, delusional, and sociopathic megalomaniac with severe narcissistic tendencies. The CCP’s message to the world is clear and consistent – Give me everything I want, right now, or get the hell out of the way! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The CPP’s modus operandi</b></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This third set of adjectives fleshes out some of the core components behind the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">party-state’s operational principles and its approach to domestic rule and foreign </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">policy:</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Opportunistic, strategic, deceptive, genocidal, conniving, environmentally destructive, ruthless</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Perhaps the CCP’s greatest strength is its utterly flexible approach to problem-solving with respect to surviving and governing while expanding its power and influence around the world. The CCP’s strategic orientation toward virtually every action it takes, or on any issue or obstacle it faces, is based on a deceptive and conniving approach. This is what the Chinese refer to as ‘xiao congming’, which can be translated as cleverness or petty shrewdness. More literally translated, it is a ‘small’ or ‘small-minded’ intelligence. In Chinese, the use of the term ‘small’ refers to someone who is selfish, unscrupulous and engages in underhanded trickery; what the Confucianists referred to as the “Lesser Man”. You might even call it a sort of CQ or Cleverness Quotient. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>When this opportunistic methodology is practised in its purest form, it becomes a ruthless utilitarianism that seeks to maximise the regime’s own advantages, financial gains, and political interests through deceit, manipulation, theft, threats, violence, and bribery. Unchecked and unconstrained, it leads the CCP to exploit and weaponise literally anything at its disposal that will advance its objectives. Free from moral considerations, unbound by oversight, or any impulse to abide by rules or standards of conduct, this provides the CCP with its greatest single weapon and represents its core strength. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>A concrete example of the CCP’s strategic and plunderous perspective is most graphically illustrated by its environmentally-destructive mode of economic development. The extraction of resources by the party-state is unfettered by almost any consideration to protect China’s ecosystem or ensure its sustainability for future generations. By cutting safety standards for workers, hiding or lying about pollution levels, as well as by failing to enforce environmental protection laws and standards, the CCP can produce and manufacture goods more cheaply than most other countries. State-owned enterprises are also given a freehand to exploit and damage China’s lands and waterways so that corrupt officials may accrue greater profits. Chinese SOEs, many of which are running at losses, have unlimited access to funds from the banks that are all controlled by the state. China can then produce on a massive scale, and at below-cost, which enables the CCP to flood markets across the world with Chinese goods in order to monopolise market share and control the price of key raw materials on a global scale. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>State-run enterprises enjoy subsidised electricity and water pricing and are often supplied with large tracts of land for free. The regime also frequently evicts citizens and takes their land away with impunity because the entire country and all of its resources belong to the Chinese Communist Party. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The unsustainability of this economic development is characterised by massive income inequality, ecological devastation, and a massive national debt-to-GDP ratio of approximately 300 percent that is steadily climbing. Its infrastructure-led, planned economic approach has been fuelling China’s growth at an artificially high pace, such that China is now also facing a real estate bubble and massive over-capacity in many industries such as steel manufacturing and high-speed rail. The emergence of dozens of ghost cities across China built to house tens of millions of new city-dwellers now stand virtually empty – like giant monuments bearing witness to the CCP’s irrational, unsustainable and environmentally-destructive economical model. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Another extreme consequence of the regime’s unadulterated exploitation is that even the Chinese people are simply viewed as cattle, material or fodder for the party’s gain. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP’s genocidal policies carried out against landlords led to the murder of millions in the nineteen-fifties, in order to implement so-called land reform. This was followed by an entirely avoidable and unnecessary mass-starvation of tens of millions during the Great Leap Forward in the late fifties and early sixties that was precipitated by the Sino-Soviet split – and an end to wide-scale Russian aid and co-operation to assist Communist China – as Chairman Mao decided he no longer wanted to play ‘little brother’ to the Soviet Union. Upwards of 36-40 million starved in order to save the face of the Communist regime and its ruler, Chairman Mao, when China exported its wheat and grain stores to Russia, rather than face the humiliation of being in debt to Russia. Humiliation was absolutely unacceptable for the party, but mass starvation in the tens of millions was perfectly fine for its leaders. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The Cultural Revolution followed soon after mass starvation during the Great Leap Forward and continued for a decade from 1966-1976. Once again, this led to the death of millions of people, as the citizens of China were plunged into a fictitious ideological struggle that descended into mass chaos, violence, and a civil war. All of this death and destruction was unleashed by Chairman Mao in order to preserve his own power and control over the party-state in his factional struggle against rivals within the party. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Just over a decade later in 1989, we then witness the mass genocide of thousands of innocent students and protesters by PLA troops, who for the most part were peacefully demanding political progress, democracy, and an end to corruption and special privileges for the families and children of the party elites. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>In 1999, another bloody campaign against Falungong practitioners was unleashed and still continues to this day. The CCP have not only oppressed, imprisoned and enslaved these religious adherents, they continue to make money off large-scale harvesting of their organs for profit to this day. Now just imagine if the U.S. government did the same to Tom Cruise and his fellow Scientologists! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>In more recent years, thousands of mosques and churches have been desecrated or demolished under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2012. While Buddhism is peaceful, apolitical and non-confrontational, and therefore seen as less threatening to party rule in China, many outdoor Buddhist statues are now being removed from in and around temples, just as Christian crosses have been removed from the remaining churches that have so far evaded demolition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Five years ago saw the rapid and large-scale detention, arrest and torture of over 300 hundred civil-rights lawyers all across China. At the same time, the CCP has unleashed an intensified crackdown on online dissent, in conjunction with an all-out assault against the recent emergence of civil activism in Chinese society, which still continues in 2020. Essentially, any competing thought, cultural expression or societal grouping which differs from Communist dogma and orthodoxy is repressed, vilified, denigrated, assimilated or eradicated. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Mistreated and abused under China’s Communist regime for decades, the Tibetan, Mongolian and Uyghur peoples in China are facing a comprehensive campaign of cultural and ethnic genocide, so that the Communist regime can secure access to strategic land bridges across Asia to push its economic imperialism and extract all of the local riches and resources to be had in these regions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The most extreme example of this is genocidal approach can be seen in the Communist regime’s treatment of a Turkic minority group called the Uyghurs in China’s Northwest frontier region of Xinjiang. Here Uyghurs and other Chinese Muslims are forced to speak Chinese under detainment in concentration camps on a massive scale, as they are forced to undergo an intensive programme of Communist indoctrination, while their children are separated from their parents and grandparents to be brought up as party-loving ‘Chinese’ children in state-run boarding schools. There are reports of mass sterilisation of Uyghur women, while many of the men are sent off in the thousands to work as semi-slave labourers in factories across China. Many male CCP minders are then dispatched to live with remaining Uyghur family members who have not yet been sent off to the concentration camps. Some reports suggest that these party minders even sleep in the same beds as the local women of local Uyghur families, whose husbands, brothers and fathers are detained in concentration camps or forced to work in factories far away from home. One can only imagine how many local Uyghur women are being raped by these Chinese minders, while many other Uyghurs are forced to sing songs in Chinese praising the Communist party, being forced to eat pork or being banned from observing religious fasting during Ramadan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>By separating Uyghur families, the Communist regime can destroy the local culture and language, assimilate the men and women, and prevent the women from reproducing, then further disburse the population density of the Uyghur population. Decades ago, Uyghurs made up over 80 percent of the population in their home region of Xinjiang and have now fallen to less than 50 percent of the population, also thanks to a massive influx of Han Chinese. At the same time as the party actively disintegrates Uyghur culture and society and assimilates the Uyghur population, the Communist rulers can make money off the backs of Uyghur detainees from the concentration camps who are then sent off to factories under enforced labour in Chinese factories outside of Xinjiang. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The Orwellian level of control exercised in Xinjiang, ironically termed the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, likely surpasses any other place on planet earth, including North Korea. The streets are constantly monitored by vast numbers of PLA troops in armoured vehicles or patrolling the streets on foot while brandishing machine guns. The local Uyghurs constantly have their ID checked and the Communist authorities force them to install tracking and monitoring software on their mobile phones while a vast array of surveillance cameras scrutinises their every movement. The local Uyghurs have to go through scanners and metal detectors almost every time they enter a market or a shop, men are not allowed to grow beards, while women cannot wear veils. Unauthorised gatherings of three or more local Uyghurs is also prohibited, whilst all Uyghurs under the age of 18 are banned from entering and worshipping in Mosques. Every meat cleaver owned by Uyghurs has an individually laser-tagged QR code etched upon it and each of these knives are chained down to cutting boards. Very few of these harsh restrictions are placed on the Han Chinese who live right next to them, nor are their ethnic Chinese neighbours forced to undergo constant scanning, spot-checks, harassment, and interrogation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Virtually no respect is given, nor any allowance afforded for the free pursuit of local culture, traditions, religion or languages in Xinjiang. While some terrorist acts have been committed by Uyghurs against Han Chinese, due to the severe repression of Chinese rule, the large-scale imprisonment and the blanket criminalisation of an entire ethnic group of 11 million Uyghurs illustrates the CCP’s attempt to maximise its own interests through extreme measures, due to a lack of moral restraint, or even a sliver of sympathy or compassion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>As long as the party faces no substantial consequences for its behaviour or strong resistance to its actions, it will actively engage in any level of repression, violence and totalitarian control it is capable of at any given moment. The CCP’s methodology is a concrete manifestation of its exploitative world view, its underlying motivation to retain and maximise power, and an intense drive for survival by any means necessary. There is no limit to the CCP’s deceptive, conniving and strategically-orientated opportunism, which leads to destructive, genocidal and ruthless behaviour that is unchecked by any sense of proportion, remorse or self-control.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Defining features and effects of CCP rule in China</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>This final set of adjectives has been grouped to reflect some of the impacts and common characteristics of party rule:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>abhorrent, incompetent, amoral, inhumane, deadly, dangerous, dystopian, evil, brutal, shameless, endangered, desperate</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The CCP’s amoral and shameless mind-set has led to the creation of a brutal, inhumane and abhorrent form of dystopian rule. In many respects, the CPP’s amorality surpasses any conventional judgement of good and evil. Pure utilitarianism, taken to its logical extreme, is beyond considerations of ethics, nor is it bound by any moral code. The CCP’s shamelessness imbues with it the ability to engage in any form of behaviour devoid of self-restraint, empathy or sense of responsibility. The CCP’s fundamental perception of the world poses a dangerous and deadly threat to the global environment, its own people, universal human rights and values, as well as to international law and order. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, The Chinese Communist party state is now an endangered species in the world’s family of nations – a living fossil in terms of its backward, totalitarian structure and ideology, which is even less politically progressive than Iran and is currently regressing toward an ultra-leftist Mao-era dictatorship more akin to North Korea. Desperate to retain power, the regime is struggling to swim against the tide of human progress and political reform through its financial clout, a steadily expanding military threat, as well as a co-ordinated and multifaceted exploitation of advanced technology for the purpose of repressing its own citizens while pursuing the persistent and pervasive theft of intellectual property across the planet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Yet in spite of all of the time and energy it has spent, and all of the unlimited resources at its disposal, the CCP often ends up revealing many incompetent aspects of its governance. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The most glaring example of this is the fact that China is now run by an under-educated, semi-illiterate and egotistical despot who is infinitely unqualified to rule over such a vast and important nation. Since Xi Jinping took power eight years ago, the entire country has suffered steady economic decline and a disastrous foreign policy approach that has alienated most of the world’s most important powers, while raising distrust and alarm among the citizens of many countries across the world toward China. Currently, the world is facing an unprecedented pandemic, largely as a result of the party-state’s criminal negligence and initial mishandling of the crisis under Xi Jinping’s ineffectual rule. The great irony of Xi’s rise to power might actually lie in the fact that the party elders could well have chosen him precisely for his lack of ability, as a compromise proxy to patch over conflicts between divergent factions within the retired elite – a malleable figurehead who would not challenge or threaten their authority. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Chairman Mao himself feared and oppressed Chinese intellectuals because their superior knowledge, intelligence and capacity for critical thinking could be fatal to his rule. Therefore, one of the overriding principles and characteristics of academia under CCP rule for decades is to serve as cheerleaders and apologists for the regime, as well as to concoct a narrative for the masses which convinces them of the correct and glorious leadership of the party. Thus, academia’s competence in China is heavily compromised by its party-oriented orthodoxy, and burdened by its mission to enhance propaganda work. At the same time, while severe restrictions placed on education under Communist further stifle the validity, efficacy and innovation of academic pursuits in China.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <span> </span><span> </span>For party officials, academics and advisers in China, there is a far greater incentive to tell their superiors what they want to hear, and to cover up shortcomings or failed policies, than there is to undertake corrective measures or provide solutions. In fact, officials or academics who dare to present any flaws of leadership, offer suggestions for course corrections, or expose the incompetence and corruption within the party, are virtually all demoted, dismissed or detained, while some end up being tortured and slowly poisoned to death in prison.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The overwhelming lack of oversight or monitoring of the CCP leadership and its officials can also easily lead to complacency. When errors are made, they are often simply covered up and officials are often not held accountable for their incompetent and corrupt practices. Many of the CCP’s top echelon are born into positions of power, wealth and privilege based on their Communist aristocratic pedigree rather than their ability. Top officials who maintain an iron grip over China’s political and military machinery are mostly chosen from the hundred or so elite families of the party’s ‘red aristocracy’ and their descendants. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>Unity, loyalty and absolute secrecy serve as far more crucial elements ensuring the survival of party rule than merit. Incompetent and corrupt officials, inefficient State-owned enterprises operating at huge losses, as well as a massively corrupt and less-than-battle ready military, are all largely exempt from scrutiny or legal responsibility in exchange for their staunch support and defense of the totalitarian regime. Bribery, deception and connections to the party elite can easily trump basic competence when securing a position of power and privilege within the CCP hierarchy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>The glue that holds the party together is the promise of a joint exploitation of the masses, immunity from the law, and a mafia-style oath of fealty and secrecy to protect the party’s overall interests from any outside interference, monitoring or accountability. To further cement party loyalty, the punishment for any party member or officials who breaks that oath is swift, harsh and sometimes even fatal. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span> </span><span> </span>While <i>A Brief Anatomy of the CCP</i> merely represents a cursive attempt to delineate the major contours and elucidate some of the key characteristics of the Communist party-state in China, hopefully it can shed some further light on the essential features and components of this dystopian and tyrannical, rogue-state.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p>Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-83713583398584309152020-08-15T02:19:00.006-07:002020-08-15T02:19:30.389-07:00Early August Evening in Beijing<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lJLMCKXZUHk" width="320" youtube-src-id="lJLMCKXZUHk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a highly-compressed 1080p video composed of 43 indvidual photos taken in illustration mode with a Sony RX100. Each photo was individually processed with FastStone Viewer, then put together in OpenShot Video editing software.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The audio sample was taken from the same location with my Sony digital recording just after shooting the image sequences.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This animation short was made as a proof of concept, so there are still some areas to work on. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Viewed on a larger screen, there is a bit of noise in some of the images. Secondly, due to the lightness of the small tripod and camera, I actually moved the position of the frame by mistake a few times, which had an impact on the smoothness of the animation effect. Moreover, in the process of taking the different images, I kept adjusting the aperture and shutter speeds, which led to a wide variance in exposures. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A fixed aperture and shutter speed setting would have enhanced the uniformity of the comic effect and made for more consistent expsoures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Unfortunately the buffering speed of the camera limits the ability to shorten the gap between image sequences and the RX100 (1st generation) does not allow for the use of the burst function in illustration mode.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-61349585587093187232019-12-07T22:37:00.000-08:002019-12-07T22:37:11.831-08:00Lei Feng vs. VISION - The Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lei Feng, the man in the portrait, himself is a product of ‘virtuality’. His life story was fabricated as an exemplar of puritannical socialist morality and virtue. Decades ago, many photos of Lei Feng were manually doctored images. They were literally cut and pasted by party propagandists to manufacture and accentuate his heroic selflessness as a humble, loyal soldier and worker faithfully serving the Communist cause. In contrast, the vivid pixel elements of fashion models in this mosaic clash with this moralistic conformity. They celebrate an unrestrained and flamboyant individuality which defies obedience and rejects humility and servitude.<br />
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This is my first upload on SoundCloud. It's a combination of a field recording of crickets in Eastern Beijing, along with a digital drum track and voices from online text-to-speech engines. I combined the tracks manually with a Sony digital recorder. This track was completed using Nero Wave Editor.<br />
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It is a satirical musical invention poking fun at China's dictator, Xi Jinping.<br />
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Please feel free to share any tips, hints, criticisms or suggestions!Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-51874672577326233702019-05-09T21:09:00.000-07:002019-05-29T23:41:36.539-07:00Sight beyond Seeing - 3D Art by Wang Lang<h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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An overview and exploration of Wang Lang's hand-painted 3D works of art.
Requires red-and-blue 3D glasses in order to fully experience the three-dimensional effect of the art works presented.
All elements of the video, including script translation, narration, photography, music, video editing, audio mixing, layout and design by Chris Harry.</h3>
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<br />Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-4602356812984064112016-01-31T19:59:00.001-08:002020-08-15T01:53:40.691-07:00刁皇绰号选集 Selected Nicknames for his Rotundness Emperor Xi<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;">
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Big-bottom Xi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In theory, the addition of the RMB as a top-reserve currency would further diversify the world's exchange reserves. It also would draw China further into the world economy, which might also be a positive force for encouraging China to move toward a stable economic model based on greater transparency and not-so-minor adjustments such as the rule of law. On the other hand, Chinese banks would have to sink and park huge sums of money as deposit insurance, which could further weaken its already fragile debt-to-GDP ratio imbalance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fact that China is a maverick economic player that relies on artificial growth which is willing to use any and all means to continue the growth bubble for the sake of social stability and the perpetuation of the party-state, also means that China could potentially become a hugely disruptive and destabilising force in the world economy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Party interests will always remain paramount and unchecked under the current system, so only when China makes a fundamental political and economic shift, can we expect the Yuan to make a positive contribution to global economic stability. China will also need to follow international rules and regulations in order to make a positive contribution to international economic stability. Again, under the current system in place in China, we cannot expect that it is willing to follow international norms, practices and rules. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lack of a domestic rule of law clearly indicates China unwillingness to abide by international treaties and conventions. China's approach in the South China Sea shows a total disregard for the sovereignty of its own neighbours and is a breach of the treaties it signed, took part in drafting, and pledged to uphold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Xi's administration has been emboldened to further apply the no-rules bully approach toward domestic politics and foreign policy. At the same time, the domestic economy has been tanking ever since Xi took power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stock market debacle also shows a total lack of transparency and honesty in dealing with internal domestic issues. In the end, the government relied on a command-driven and heavy-handed approach to force a recovery of the stock market. In the process, billions in individual investors' earnings evaporated, along with one-fourth of its crucial monetary reserves to support China's state retirement funds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beijing took a huge gamble by creating a false bull market in order to orchestrate state-led insider trading, so as to prop up Zombie SOEs that are bleeding out huge losses daily and are kept alive by state-controlled banks that can barely handle the pressure of giving out free money to keep these SOEs afloat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When China gets its political and economic house in order, then we might expect the RMB to play a positive role in the world economy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pictured here with a fake yellow umbrella, an homage to the Umbrella Revolution where Hong Kong students bravely demonstrated and protested in their demand for true elections. Emperor Xi's make-believe response is depicted above as, "I want true dictatorship".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The yellow colour of the umbrella also represents a colour that was reserved only for the Emperor in ancient China. In the past, any subject discovered wearing fabric dyed in Imperial yellow could be subject to the death penalty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is symbolic of how human rights have been further eroded and weakened just as party Emperor Xi has been concentrating more and more dictatorial powers in his own hands since his rise to power.</span>Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-69288233669344816132015-01-19T00:49:00.000-08:002015-01-19T00:49:42.724-08:00China’s Wrongheaded Quest for Respect<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> One would hope that the Chinese leadership is beginning to understand the importance of co-operation with other countries, but after decades of empty rhetoric from Beijing, the mentality and the strategic diplomatic initiatives of China's dictatorship still remain shrouded in a bamboozling cloud of mystery. Aside from a penchant for opportunistic gain; be it military, diplomatic or economic, Beijing seems to lack a consistent or clear diplomatic policy that builds long-lasting alliances or friendship based on mutual respect and trust. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> While more and more Chinese citizens are becoming open, cosmopolitan and globally-minded, the government remains secretive, distrustful and painfully awkward at forging meaningful and mutually beneficial ties with other countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Beijing seems very poor at thinking beyond monetary bribery and military bravado. While these are key levers to power relations, they do not appeal to the human side of diplomatic relations, and therefore ultimately fail to win the hearts and minds of the non-Chinese majority of humanity across the globe.</span><br />
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Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-54138994783053442392014-04-26T00:51:00.001-07:002019-05-10T22:24:40.231-07:00Which Foreign Gods are most 'Chinese'?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqJPPMyL0kksy0UNxc96dmj0V5-7H1ChN3Helqz_UsAbJzGqtcPzt1S_08zjqrb3X7oOFD2xndSaItDmSOAwqYhL-ZU5hSDoiQ1mqnDXZ2l__72D8UqqVk6V8oi2NhgLzeb9tkxfsyB1k/s1600/Foreign+Chinese+Gods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqJPPMyL0kksy0UNxc96dmj0V5-7H1ChN3Helqz_UsAbJzGqtcPzt1S_08zjqrb3X7oOFD2xndSaItDmSOAwqYhL-ZU5hSDoiQ1mqnDXZ2l__72D8UqqVk6V8oi2NhgLzeb9tkxfsyB1k/s1600/Foreign+Chinese+Gods.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In terms of historical seniority, arguably considered to be a very important criterion in defining Chinese culture among Chinese who are proud of their long history, it is not unreasonable to assert that Christianity is more Chinese than Communism, as its history can be traced all the way back to the 19th century missionaries. Technically speaking, Christians were frst allowed to establish a foothold in China as early as the 7th century. The rulers of the sect called the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace who rebelled against and nearly toppled the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century (a foreign Manchu dynasty that had invaded and conquered China in 1644) were a quasi-Christian force whose leader, Hong Xiuquan, claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China (and considered by the Communist Party of China as the father of the nation) who helped to finally end foreign Manchu rule in 1911, was both a Confucian and a Christian. His successor and subsequent leader of China in the Nationalist era, Chiang Kai-shek, also converted to Christianity. All of this Chinese destiny with Christianity happened before the Chinese Communists ever took power in China. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thus, if the Chinese Communists can worship their foreign gods, demi-gods and heroes such as Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Bethune and Genghis Khan (Russian, German, Canadian and Mongolian respectively) then what is wrong with Chinese Christians worshipping Jesus, the King of the Jews or an Argentinean Pope Francis? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Buddhists have been worshipping their Nepalese-born leader Siddhartha Gautama for milllennia in China, a foreign religion which spread to China from Central Asia. Yet another legendary Buddhist figure Bodhi Dharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China, was from India and was quite possibly one of the greatest single historical figures to promote China’s cultural influence in the world next to Confucius and Lao Zi (the founder of Daoism). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Therefore, in terms of historical seniority and cultural influence, we should conclude that Gautama Buddha and Bodhi Dharma are the two most ‘Chinese’ foreign gods in Chinese history. After all, even though Genghis Khan looked kind of Chinese, he was a barbaric and cruel invader who raped and pillaged China, then wiped it off the map. Although that is precisely why the followers of a Russian pseudo-religion called Communism in China still revere their ancient foreign barbarian hero; because he brutally dominated the ancient world. Maybe that qualifies Genghis Khan as the most ‘Chinese Communist’ foreign god.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is hugely ironic that ever since Premier Li Keqiang has declared war on pollution back in March the pollution in China's capital has steadily grown worse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since January of this year, days at 200+ levels on the PM 2.5 index are the norm rather than the exception. This means that Beijing's air quality is regularly 20 times higher than the level that the WHO considers a health hazard. On many so-called "sunny" days here in the heart of the China Dream, the skies are often dingy and enveloped under a glowing grey of thick haze.</span><br />
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The reality on the ground is that pollution continues to worsen here in Beijing and in the rest of the country. Another reality in China is that many, if not most laws, are either not actually enforced or are enforced inconsistently at best. Laws in China are often only applied arbitrarily to the benefit of government officials and to the detriment of its citizens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The current anti-corruption campaign is a perfect example of this. It is simply a 'campaign' and not the consistent application and adherence to any laws. The only likely concrete result of the anti-corruption campaign will be the transfer of money stolen from taxpayers by some targeted officials from rival party factions to other corrupt officials allied to the new leadership. Under the current system, which has no independent monitoring or judiciary, laws simply become tools in the hands of officials to enrich themselves, remove political rivals, deny citizens the right to monitor, protest or interfere with their interests and to consolidate their own power.</span><br />
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As things stand now, polluting factories will simply give bribes to get around legislation and the central government will likely neither enforce nor supervise the rules in any meaningful way. Regional government leaders will also avoid enforcement in order to increase the profits of local industry and to enhance their GDP growth track records whilst pocketing graft money from local polluters. </span><br />
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In addressing the lack of results on the anti-pollution front the central government mainly blames regional governments (its favourite scapegoat) for causing the problem, but then fails to act to intervene or prevent 'regional pollution', which means the responsibility ultimately lies with Beijing. What is more, the levels of air and water pollution in the capital also speak to the lack of sincerity on the part of China’s central government to tackle pollution. Meanwhile, the majority of China’s top ten most polluted cities surround the larger region around the capital, which clearly demonstrates a lack of will or ability on the part of China’s national leaders to take concerted action to stem the tide of steadily rising pollution. </span><br />
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Back in February, the local Beijing government failed to enact its own emergency measures when air pollution had risen to red alert levels of over 500 on the PM 2.5 index, so it does not appear that China’s central government is even committed to enforcing its own laws consistently. Therefore, it is fair to ask why regional governments would take state laws seriously. If central leaders consistently flout national laws and regulations, then why should regional leaders be expected to respect anti-pollution legislation? In fact, Beijing stands as the key obstacle to the enforcement of laws to actually curb pollution. A one hundred percent monopoly on power unavoidably translates into one hundred percent responsibility for the destruction of China's environment.</span><br />
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The most compelling evidence to suggest that ‘sweeping’ new laws will likely fail to have a great impact can be seen from the government’s past record on 'fighting' pollution. China has already enacted a whole range of laws and regulations to curb pollution in recent decades, yet the pollution continues to worsen as the environmental crisis continues to deepen. </span><br />
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Laws have to be enforced in order to have any real effect. As long as China remains a corrupt country without a viable rule of law, anti-pollution laws are simply empty words on paper. The smog is very real and so far the implementation of anti-pollution legislation appears to be merely an illusory phantom with about as much substance as Emperor Xi’s China Dream.</span><br />
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Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-58592526104292153162014-01-31T03:42:00.001-08:002020-08-15T01:54:26.759-07:00Tiger Xi Inspects the Troops 习虎阅兵<h2>
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Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-34847548407948203782013-09-23T09:07:00.000-07:002014-05-25T22:29:21.403-07:00最具垮台的政府特性 A Government Destined for Failure<span style="font-family: 宋体;">
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</span>Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-49811519692629793152013-09-20T22:59:00.004-07:002019-05-10T22:27:00.819-07:00Solid Waste Adorns Beijing’s Grand Canal World Heritage Site<span style="font-family: 宋体;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";">“</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">美离</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";">”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">中国:大运河系列一</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Solid Waste Adorns Beijing’s
Grand Canal World Heritage Site </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";">“</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">美离</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";">”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">中国:大运河系列一</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's
an image I took of the pollution in the Grand Canal in Beijing after the
devastating and fatal floods from July of 2012. According to various
statistics, at least several dozen or so people died because of a faulty
drainage system, although we will probably never know the true number of fatalities
due to the government's pathological fear of the truth. One China Daily estimate put
the figure at 77 deaths. A rule of thumb for gauging Communist Party statistics is to at least double or triple figures
formally announced by the Chinese government that reveal any inadequacies or mistakes in
governance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As
I understand it, the drainage system was donated and built by the Russians in
the fifties, but was never even finished, nor has it ever been substantially upgraded
or repaired since. Please feel to correct my information if you feel I have made
any inaccurate statements.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">A
lot of this solid waste is still hanging on the side of the bridge over a year later!
This is how the Chinese government treats a UNESCO World Heritage Site and its
people’s human right to existence in the capital of China.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";">Although,
it is only fair to add that both ordinary citizens and companies are actively contributing
to the pollution of the waterways across China and there are signs forbidding
dumping and fishing. Still, there is no visible attempt to curtail any of these
so-called illegal activities, nor is there any systematic dredging or cleanup
effort being undertaken that I’ve seen in 18 years of living in China. I do,
however, genuinely pity the misguided fools who continue to fish for a toxic “free
lunch”</span><span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Imagine
how many jobs could be created for underprivileged and financially challenged
citizens if a serious effort was made to at least clear out the solid waste
from China’s river systems. Even if many toxic chemicals and heavy metals
remained, it would still be a cosmetic coup for the formalist's school of
leadership. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I
was positive that they would undertake such a policy in preparation for the
2008 Olympic Games, as it is a no-brainer, but the government’s vow of a Green
Olympics quickly turned brown. A clearer example of unconditional entitlement
by a dictatorial regime could hardly be found.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Not
exactly the “Chinese Dream” from the propaganda murals so wastefully and superfluously
plastered across the city at the expense of the Chinese taxpayers! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">On
a positive note, the Pearl River along the Shatian District of Guangzhou is no
longer as thick, chunky and dark as French Onion Soup, like it used to be back in
the early nineties.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US">(Another
politically-incorrect rant by Chris Harry)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<i>In his recent article, Jeremy Goldkorn gives a very good analysis of the
so-called "China Dream", which is every bit as empty as the endless
barrage of vacuous rhetoric spewing forth from the “brains” behind the regime's
latest propaganda offensive (double entendre intended). On closer inspection,
however, I would argue that there is a clear and consistent message embedded
within the party's code which may be far more sinister than its seemingly
upbeat title suggests. When you place the pieces of the "China Dream"
puzzle together in the right sequence, it starts to look a little less
optimistic and inspiring.</i></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
The government is sort of hinting at what the so-called “Chinese Dream” is all
about: “the great revival of the Chinese Peoples” (also trying to include its
repressed minorities), “ensuring the Chinese army can fight winning battles”,
and what Jeremy Goldkorn refers to as being “self-confident in the Chinese
path, theories and system”. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
In other words, the dream is a collective concept which calls for the whole
Chinese nation to unite fully under the “correct leadership” of the party to
make China strong so that every citizen can feel proud of China’s spaceships,
jet fighters, and its refurbished Russian aircraft carrier, and to ensure that
no foreigner will ever insult the Chinese ever again. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In this dream, there are
no guarantees of food safety, environmental protection, no statements of
respect for the constitution, nor any announcements about the implementation of
an independent judiciary, rule of law, freedom of speech or political rights.
It’s just about giving the Chinese people face, which makes it a very cheap and
simplistic DPRK style dream.</span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
There is a gigantic billboard at the gate of Beijing’s Capital Airport on which
is printed the three characters for "China Dream", in which a woman in
a traditional Beijing Opera outfit is featured on a plain white background;
suggesting that the so-called “Chinese Dream” is also about the renaissance of
China’s traditional culture. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another giant “China Dream” poster appeals to the
ideals and aspirations of children which depicts a young girl in a traditional red dress and hairstyle reminiscent of Tang dynasty China.The same poster girl is now featured on smaller propaganda murals plastered around construction sites in Beijing with the caption, "China dream - My dream". If I were to guess, I believe it may well be implying that the future will be
brighter for China’s youth, perhaps indirectly imploring the population to
suffer and sacrifice further for the sake of the next generation. While this is subjective speculation, such an explanation is consistent
with the CCP’s martyr-worship and self-sacrifice culture, whereby
communist heroes suffer and die gloriously merely for the sake of the party's
honour.On the other hand,all of these cute </span>cartoon<span style="font-family: inherit;"> murals and simplistic slogans may simply be just a lame attempt to project a kinder, more positive albeit empty message to shore up the party's image. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体;"><strong>"Beautiful China": Deluded and Fanciful
Party Reverie</strong></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
Superficially speaking, you might say there is at least one positive element
about the Chinese dream, which refers to “Beautiful China” and this is part of
the government push for a so-called “ecological civilisation”, although efforts
toward environmental protection and renewal are vital and unavoidable to ensure
the future stability and sustainability of China, so this aspect of the dream
has far more to do with a meek and belated attempt by China’s rulers to mask
the ugly reality of decades of massive environmental degradation and devastation.
Far from what most human beings would qualify as a dream. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Instead of facing the
harsh reality of toxic rivers, smog-filled skies and ubiquitous piles of
rubbish strewn across many of the suburbs of its mega-cities,
townships, and farmlands across a vast nation which has already begun
to erode the quality of the environment well beyond its borders, the
government childishly proclaims China "beautiful". </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What is more, if
you deign to take issue with this specious description, you are by definition a
traitor to the Chinese people and a lackey of the West as defined
by the boundaries of officially-sanctioned discussion and the monolithic
construct of omnipotent thought coercion that is so innocuously referred to merely
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">propaganda</i> in the English
language. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The motive and strategy behind the "beautiful" aspect
of the Chinese Dream is identical to the previous leadership's emphasis on
"harmonious society". Instead of acknowledging a problem and dealing
with it through reform and substantive measures, the party simply pretends
that black is white; brushing over the reality of a host of
crises on many different levels with idyllic and abstract strokes
of denial. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Based on precedence and on pragmatic analysis of spurious
phrases like "Beautiful China" and "Harmonious Society" ,
which are not backed by concrete steps toward their eventual attainment, they should
be taken as a warning signal that the party is still not committed to
undertaking responsibility for the future of China, nor is it
exhibiting any real concern for an increasingly denuded land or the
drastic consequences of its consistently harmful approach, even though it
is fully aware that delaying action can only increase the financial and human
costs that will inescapably translate into a political deficit. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Beautiful
China" is a bit of feeble daydreaming concocted by a gang of
deluded and unimaginative despots with an enormous lack of
sympathy for enhancing the quality of life for its people. "Beautiful
China" simultaneously offends the intellect while revealing
a vertiginous chasm where wisdom is most desperately and urgently
required.</span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<strong>The “Party Dream”: Follow the Party Forever</strong></span></span></span><br />
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</strong></span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
The “Chinese Dream” is not at all about reform or eventual democracy. It’s as
if the party went back forty years in time to reinforce the idea that the sole
purpose of existence for Chinese people is to work tirelessly for the eventual
victory of Chinese communism over the world and for the total and utter
supremacy of China in every sphere of human endeavour. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
One of the latest phrases rolled out by the regime since Xi Jinping’s rise to
the throne could not be more point-blank: “Follow the party forever.” Once
again, it displays an inability of the party to look or think beyond the
confines of its sterile and stultifying dogma.</span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
Personally, I believe the government was pathetically overreaching when they
came up with this slogan in 2013. Doubtless, the majority of
independent-thinking Chinese citizens would find this statement inappropriate
and an insult to their intelligence. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One young Chinese lady I spoke to last night in a convenience store as she was complaining to a shopkeeper here in Beijing about the ridiculous pronouncements of the government said adamantly, “Why the hell do we have to follow the party forever?” </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is one of many signs indicating the
increasing ideological gap between the government and the people. It is
shocking, distressing and embarrassing that the government is dredging up
ancient slogans from the failed Mao era such as the “Mass Line” and is still
trying to sell “Lei Feng” as the selfless party member who should stand as the
model for all Chinese citizens. In this sense, the “Chinese Dream” is an unconvincing
and uninspiring plea from the regime to retain absolute power. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
From this perspective, it would actually be far more appropriate to refer to it
as the “Party Dream” and the government is simply trying to ram this party
dream down the peoples’ throats through the same-old repetitive, moribund
technique of mass media propaganda blitzes. Unfortunately for the party, the average person on the street here in China has grown cynical of the party's motives and </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">its </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">slogans </span><span lang="EN-US">more often than not become the butt of an endless stream of sarcastic jokes appearing on China's social media platforms. </span></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Nevertheless, the fact that the Western media even refers to the “Chinese
Dream” and tries to ask what it is all about shows that people around the world
are yearning to see some sort of positive development in China’s political
culture. This is equally true of Chinese citizens, so there is some sort of
weak logic behind the “Chinese Dream” in terms of inspiring a degree of
misplaced hope in the future of China’s current system of governance which
continues to hemorrhage credibility by the day, especially at the
beginning of this new dynastic cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As a proactive
and positive approach, the "Chinese Dream" also represents a wider
attempt by Emperor Xi to genuinely rejuvenate and consolidate the regime from
within, in order to save it from self-induced collapse. It is an attempt to put
a more human and optimistic face on Xi's mainly draconian approach to ruling
the party by calling for more austerity, less ostentatious abuse of power and
other obvious forms of corruption, and through his main governance strategy of applying
a vigorous and ongoing anti-corruption campaign to destroy political rivals and
consolidate his grip on power. However, the remarkable emptiness of the
“Chinese Dream” concept itself is compelling evidence of the “ideological
bankruptcy” of the Chinese state.</span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<strong>Nationalism, Xenophobia and the “Chinese Dream”</strong></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
In expounding upon the "Chinese Dream", Xi Jinping also makes
reference to a “Strong Army Dream” and this gives a collective, nationalistic
“Chinese dream” an obviously aggressive and militant tone. Notice that little
or no mention has been made of China’s “peaceful rise” since Xi took over the
reins of power. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Long before Xi Jinping sat on the throne as the new head of the
regime, my biggest worry about the future direction of China was that, once
Chinese people felt confident and wealthy enough, they might tend to start
looking down on other nations and become more nationalistic, which could then lead
to the potential for large-scale military conflict. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Painstakingly cultivated
nationalism and xenophobia is really one of the last aces up the sleeve of the government
when trying to bond with its own populace, yet it is admittedly still a very
strong ace card, because it has absolute control of all official media and the
entire education system. For this reason, one of the few things that a fair
proportion of Chinese people and the government share is a certain degree of
xenophobia and distrust toward outside powers, particularly the United States,
and most especially, Japan. To an extent, there are some legitimate historical
reasons for these sentiments, but the fact remains that xenophobia is patently
and blatantly promoted throughout China’s media and its educational system.
Xenophobia and the promotion of anti-Western, anti-Japanese sentiment is a
core government policy in China. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
I first noticed a trend or current of nationalism back in the nineties when
Chinese people began to look down on Russians as being poor, despite the fact
that Russians still have a higher level of per capita income, a higher level of
education and more advanced technology than China, even today. Decades earlier,
the Chinese leadership was so enthralled with Russia’s leaders they even tried
to boil their eggs in the same manner as their dear comrades. This can only be
described as an emotional, illogical form of nationalism which swings wildly
from one end of the pendulum to the other without a solid basis for such huge
discrepancies in attitudes toward the world at large.</span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
My point is that there is a very distinct way of thinking prevalent throughout
Chinese society which places face, wealth, winning and success far above most
other goals in life. It is a selfish, zero-sum gain mentality that, to some
extent, influences behavior in China from a very early age. This is not meant
to show any disrespect toward Chinese people; rather it is a statement of an
existing mentality that is quite common in Chinese society. Such a mentality is
also understandable given that there are 1.4 billion people all
fiercely competing for a better life for themselves and their families, in a
country with limited financial and natural resources where the government
offers very limited welfare and assistance. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The “Chinese Dream”
serves as a “spiritual victory” for the Chinese people to placate feelings of
inadequacy or inferiority toward more advanced and wealthier nations. By the same token, incessant smear campaigns against "vile and immoral" foreign powers makes China look more positive and upright by comparison. This is where "fighting and winning battles", a "strong army dream", unity through xenophobia and the "Chinese Dream" intersect with the real motives behind the dream campaign--keeping the party in total control by preying on an under-informed population already suffering from a severe inferiority-superiority complex cultivated by decades of propaganda. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<strong>China’s Preeminence and the Chinese Dream</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
There is undoubtedly a strong element of competition, hero worship and a clear
sense of hierarchy in all levels of Chinese society - from the regime’s own
ambitions to achieve the most number of Olympic medals and which, incidentally,
recently described its athletic contingent to the London Games as an <i>army</i>,
right on down to the pedestrian who stubbornly refuses to yield to oncoming
traffic even at the risk of bodily harm or the nouveau riche who frequently act
in an aggressive, rude and violent manner toward those in Chinese society who
are poorer than themselves. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
There is very much a strong desire to be number one instilled in the schooling
system and in the family, which is why Chinese people took it personally when
the national soccer team recently lost to Thailand 5 to 1. Chinese refuse to
accept that Thai people can be better than China at anything and this sense of
competition is most obvious with Japan. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
Probably the one thing that Chinese hate, or at least envy the most about
Japan, is that what they perceive to be as this small “student or copycat of
China’s magnificent civilization” is so much more advanced, wealthy and successful
than they are -- all the while retaining their own culture and many aspects of China’s Tang
culture even better than the Chinese themselves. This is extremely vexing and
does not fit with the Chinese perception of their rightful position in the
world. It is this hierarchical feeling of superiority that is being promoted by
the government day and night across all forms of media. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The most alarming
example of this was last year’s destructive anti-Japanese riots that were condoned or
even encouraged by the government, and which led to the injury of Chinese
people and damage wrought to Chinese citizens’ cars and
properties, not to mention likely further convincing the Japanese not
to try to making friends with China.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Chinese feel shame at being lower or less
successful than others and this can easily be converted into jealously or
hatred toward others in a higher position or, in this case, into hatred of
other countries. Add to this an elevated boost in pride and arrogance stemming
from propaganda which constructs an artificial sense of Chinese preeminence and
you have the dark elements of the party’s vengeful, anti-foreign, and nationalistic “Chinese Dream”.</span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
Confidence instilled through economic success in China often quickly leads to
arrogance and disrespect toward those whom they have "surpassed",
whether we are speaking from an individual, societal or international
standpoint. The government is constantly seeking to channel this complex and
potent mixture of pride and shame amongst the people and turn it into a
political force for the long-term strength of party rule by concentrating
negative emotions such as jealousy, fear, mistrust and a sense of superiority
against foreign powers; as well as by stoking the flames of nationalism and
convincing the population of the existence of an international anti-China
conspiracy that constantly seeks to humiliate, divide and weaken China. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The
most obvious examples of sowing distrust and hatred toward other countries can
be found in the government's nationalistic rag, The Global Times, and the
Chinese version of this paper is even more intense and explicit in its <i>patriotic
efforts</i> than the English one, because they are assuming that almost no
foreigners are capable of or even interested in reading it. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
The Chinese Dream is a late-stage attempt at mass brainwashing that is out of
all proportion in an era of instant, global, open and omnipresent
communication. Nevertheless, if the party is successful in manipulating the minds of the majority
in China by carefully nurturing these very powerful, illogical and negative
emotions away from the party and toward Japan and the West, it will be able to
work toward its “Party Dream” of permanent control. </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
A Chinese artist once told me that the Chinese are a very “emotional” people
and his pronouncement made me rethink my perceptions of China.
Perhaps it is this “emotional” element of Chinese people that the government is
banking on to persuade them that something as illogical as permanent
dictatorship is somehow uniquely suited to China, and that the only respect
Chinese people can expect is the face gained through the collective success of
the nation’s economic and military power or its Olympic medal count, rather
than through the peaceful and gradual development of democracy, political
freedoms and the rule of law. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It as if the party is saying that it can exact
revenge on the western powers and Japan that humiliated China in the past
through its sheer dominance and that this should somehow be enough to make the
people feel content and proud to remain under party rule in perpetuity. This is
perhaps the party's ultimate, albeit inexplicitly stated dream. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">However, even
if China were to become the world's dominant power, why would anyone want
to settle for nepotism, politically-based hierarchy and dictatorship? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<strong>Xi’s Hollow Dream</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
It is Xi Jinping’s all-consuming passion to rescue the party from political
oblivion. He undoubtedly does not wish to go down in the history books as the
last emperor of a withering communist dynasty and the “Chinese Dream” is
symptomatic of Xi’s form-over-substance approach thus far. He seems to actually
believe that propaganda over real change, and that campaigns
over the rule of law, are the path forward for the party’s salvation In
short, the "Chinese Dream" may be extrapolated to infer the
likelihood of a failed presidency, which will likely only shorten the lifespan of
party rule. The emptiness and abstract nature of the "Chinese Dream"
may very well come to define Xi's career as a paradoxically ambitious yet
irresolute leader.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>The “Chinese People's Dream”: Democracy, Freedom and a Higher Quality of
Life</strong></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
The outspoken Zhang Xin, President of China's real estate giant Soho, was asked
about the “Chinese Dream” recently in an interview with the BBC, in which she
said that she didn't really know what the government meant by the term, but
that the "Chinese Dream" of the average person in China was about
increasing their quality of life and being able to live more freely. She also
stated that she felt Chinese people are the same as any other people in the
world in the sense that they also want freedom and democracy. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
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As Zhang Xin mentioned in the interview, she believed that the trend toward
democracy is spreading across the world and that it is unstoppable. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is
certainly true that it is easier to come by an increasing number of Chinese
from all walks of life who have lost faith in the government and tend to share
an increasingly similar view of China with the wider world in terms of
rejecting the current regime and embracing the universal values of human and
political rights. The other side of this phenomenon is that more Chinese people
are more willing to admit to holding such views and less bound by an invisible
boundary which once exerted a much stronger and self-imposed mental barrier to reflecting on and accepting a diversity
of opinions and debate which contradict the party’s narrow and xenophobic world
view. To paraphase Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese have slowly begun to "liberate their own thinking" .</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In other words, the regime’s latest propaganda campaign appears to be
losing the war for the hearts and minds of the Chinese people. That is why I am
also confidently predicting China’s true dream is not the “Party Dream” but
rather a “Democratic Dream”. </span></span><br />
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After all, Taiwan has proven without a shadow of a doubt that a peaceful and
relatively orderly transition to democracy is perfectly compatible with Chinese
society and culture. In doing so, it has presented an alternative "Chinese Dream" which embraces the world and promotes universal human values. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On July 1st of 2013, 430 thousand people in Hong Kong also
reminded Beijing, through peaceful and public demonstrations, that they are
quite content with the rule of law and are eager for China’s central government
to fulfill its promise of full democratic elections in Hong Kong by 2017. If
the Chinese government can actually keep this promise, granted highly unlikely,
then at least one region of China will have democracy within 4 years time. </span></span><br />
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Imagine how disrespected and second-class the Mainland populace will feel
should Hong Kong citizens be granted full democratic rights whilst
they have none! </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the party continues to dream on....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">维稳源于民权—仅靠军队维稳不够,可持续发展源于缩小贫富差距、一个公平透明的社会以及实际有效的政策。莫非有人民监督政府和政治上的竞争机制,否则长期稳定、和谐与清廉政府永远无法实现。大增军官的工资远不如提高人民的权利。发表无数美好的演讲不如实际行动。政治改革是不可逆转的趋势!</span>Chris Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09886530615576951989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036179454216932134.post-84810091237675676842013-03-11T01:29:00.002-07:002013-09-20T23:24:21.498-07:00Chinese Speed 中国速度<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Chinese character for "Speed" neatly sums up one of the
most defining features of today's China; the speed of its modernisation and
development, the rapid rise in wealth and stature of the nation, but also the
incredible pace at which it is being pulled simultaneously in all directions,
both positively and negatively. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As education levels rise, so too does an increasing gap between rich and
poor. The rapidity of environmental degradation, in combination with the
explosion in the growth of social media, has also led to an equally speedy rise
in the formation of social and political awareness that is quickly supplanting
the preeminence of vacuous government propaganda in the hearts and minds of
the populace. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">At the same time, there has been a tremendous surge in the development,
deployment of, and spending on China's air force and navy that is bringing it
into more frequent and threatening incidents of sabre rattling with its Asian neighbours.
Meanwhile, a meteoric rise in the depth and intensity of political and
corruption scandals is accompanied by a wildfire of burgeoning social unrest
fanning across the country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ironically, the sheer velocity at which all these changes are taking place
sits in stark contrast to the leadership's utter lack of action or willingness
to <span style="font-size: large;">push forward</span> any sort of meaningful political, legal or social reform to
provide a necessary ballast to ensure the country's long-term sustainability. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It will be no mean
feat for China's communist leaders to keep a lid on things and rehabilitate an
increasingly damaged, depleted and poisoned land, but let's all hope the
leadership will quickly see the light and embrace progress, just as its people
have been so willing to do since Deng Xiaoping opened up China to the world over three decades ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Chinese government always like<span style="font-size: large;">s</span> to brag about how much <i>faster</i> China has accomplished its
achievements than the rest of the world<span style="font-size: large;">. M</span>aybe now it’s time they focused on
doing things <i>better</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> In reference to Beijing’s air pollution, Xi Jinping
said, “we mustn’t be impatient in the face of problems” and that we should, “adopt
a calm and collected life approach toward these problems.” When describing the
coal pollution and severe sandstorms of his youth in Beijing he further added, “Back
then we didn’t have PM2.5, but we did have PM250.” According to the report by China’s
Phoenix News, all those around him laughed aloud in response. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> Evidently, he seized the opportunity to make a light joke
about heavy air pollution in Beijing and he almost appears nostalgic and accepting
of the fact that Beijing has faced serious air pollution for half a century.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> On a more serious note, however, he seems to be attempting
to defuse the issue by implying that Beijing’s air pollution was even worse
back when he was a young boy, although I imagine very few people would find
this convincing. Ironically, one could just as easily interpret his comments as
a blunt admission that Beijing has been facing serious pollution for the last
50 years or so, most of the period in which China has been under communist
rule. Perhaps it is also a subtle jab at the U.S. embassy's monitoring and publishing of air pollution in Beijing, despite being curtly requested by an unamused Beijing government to refrain from doing so. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> Either way, it smacks of ill-advised hubris, but it is also consistent with so many of his bold pronouncements of late, inasmuch as it hints at the new ruler's confidence in his ability to control the course of events in China, quite likely stemming from his princeling pedigree as part of the red aristocratic elite which controls most of China's wealth and now has 4 members out of 7 in the inner sanctum of absolute power - the standing committee of China's politburo.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> In my humble view, it shows a serious lack of good
judgement, and it will certainly not gain him any points in China or
internationally. In a worst case scenario, PM <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">er bai wu </i>could become a damning and sarcastic sound bite that
could easily gain traction among Chinese micro-bloggers and Chinese society at
large that pokes fun at the leader’s cavalier approach to China’s serious and
growing environmental crisis. Surely he would not want to go down in history as the leader who was smug about smog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">提到空气污染时,习近平说“不用着急”要“淡定面对它”。他还说小时候北京“没有<span lang="EN-US">PM2.5,</span>但是有<span lang="EN-US">PM250”</span>。对严重污染如此淡薄,还把它当作笑话来看待,连小布什很可能都不会犯这么低级的错误。如果把它说成<span lang="EN-US">PM</span>二百五会不会取得更大的笑声呢?<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">News source: Phoenix news report by Du Ping</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Update: Bill Bishop seems to have already made a veiled reference to PM二百五(er bai wu) on Sina's Weibo Microblog today (March 7th, 2013). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">最近发现有一份发表于<span lang="EN-US">5</span>月<span lang="EN-US">15</span>日<span lang="EN-US">1950</span>年长达<span lang="EN-US">10</span>页的中国政府报告中用日文名字(非“钓鱼岛”)指出这些东海岛屿属于琉球群岛(当今冲绳)。这是第一份透露由中国政府自己曾经承认“尖阁岛”属于日本管辖范围,同时也没有对该岛屿提出任何主权主张。来自中国外交部存档室,整个报告中也没一次提到“钓鱼岛”。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">李克强提出以“新型城镇化”解放农民来带动内需。其实只要保证农民基本医疗、教育和财产权利,取消户口制度和市民享有的各种优越待遇即可。简而言之,全方位地确保农民在法律和福利上的平等待遇,维护农民的尊严就会发动新一轮经济革命。应该真正让农民翻身而不是依靠剥削农民和弱势群体创造经济增长。</span></div>
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