Posted on 04/03/2018 10:00:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Western media and the Chinese chattering classes have been in an uproar since China’s National People’s Congress approved constitutional changes that included lifting the two-term presidential limit. China approves “president for life,” proclaimed Western media.
But this misinterprets the nature of the development. And the world appears to be overlooking consequential political reforms taking place in China that will impact our collective future for the better.
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This reform is good for China simply because the party has developed into the most competent national political institution in the world today.
In the following decades, the party has developed into one of the most elaborate and effective governing institutions in the world and, I would argue, in history. It is responsible for achieving what’s known as the greatest improvement in standard of living for the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.
Chinese Communist control > US Constitution
The MSM has a luv of Chinese style central unaccountable power. Back in the 30s, the same class extolled the virtues on the dictators in charge of Russia, Germany, and Italy. By Mr. Lis own assessment Hitler and Stalin were awesome until 1939. In this modern case just disregard the cultural genocide of the non-Han Chinese, for example, Tibetians, as apologists back in the 30s disregarded the Jews and Ukranians.
Make sure you get this hack and another admirer of the Chinese dictatorship NY Times Thomas Friedman a room together for a dictatorship luv fest.
They are very effective in blocking internet access to their citizens.
They are very effective in funneling money and government contracts to their friends and away from their political opponents.
Is anyone surprised that they will have a president for life?
While China has made many free market reforms, and moves away from communism, the country still has a totalitarian government.
Just d-mn.
Praising a totalitarian regime “on behalf of the common good”
Why Hitler’s suspension of the German parliament and elections is a good thing.
WaPo publishing pure ChiCom propaganda..... they claim to be champions of “democracy” (”democracy dies in darkness” or so they say).... yet they allow one of the most anti-democratic regimes in the world to promote itself uncritically in their pages.
Could anyone imagine WaPo allowing such unchecked apologetics on behalf of the Trump White House??? Of course not, but doing it for the ChiComs is just dandy.
The Washington Post never reported on a Communist dictator they didn’t idolize.
The author would most certainly have voted Obama as ‘Emperor for life’.
This is exactly what the Post would’ve said had Obama tried to ignore the constitution and run again.
Hell its what they said about Chavez and Venezuela when he did ignore the Venezuelan constitution.
The backwater Chinese people don’t know how good they got it with proper progressive socialist leadership.
(Ignore the racism and sweatshops, poor working conditions, bad health of the actual people - they care about global warming!$
——China needed market economics. Deng’s policy unleashed younger and more forward-looking governing forces to execute the reform agenda. But more importantly, he also focused great energy on rebuilding the party institution.-——
That is, the Chicoms yielded to the Chicaps. Although not stated, “it’s the economy, stupid” was actually a rule that allowed tremendous economic growth and real transformation.
There was a thread on Free Republic just recently where it was noted that Marx said that pure communism would evolve into a totalitarian socialism.
It would seem that the Chinese government has evolved away from the pure communism of Mao into a benign socialism of sorts. The presence of Chicaps and free thinking academics means the socialism s not hard core and the free academics means the totalitarian is not harsh. The evolutionary process has not ended and the precise result is unknown.
Xi knows only too well that his population is made of many, many, many young upwardly mobile ambitious and very smart people that permit him to rule.
You can argue China would be better off have a clean and responsble government like Singapore.
But a country governed by traditional Chinese values would still be far from a Western state.
The Post joins Baby Doc Trudeau in proclaiming their admiration for China’s dictatorship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqnmfNiaM-Y
He's a South African that moved to China about 11 or so years ago. He's learned the language, married a Chinese woman, and settled in.
His tone is very upbeat and positive, and yet the content of what he discusses is mostly negative: the many ways to get scammed in China, the poor quality of workmanship, the difficulties of getting a good job if you aren't Chinese, the difficulties of getting access to the internet, the prevalence of contaminated food and pirated knockoff products, etc.
I don't think he realizes it, but he is something of a Tokyo Rose for China.
Nothing benign about “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Like Stalin’s “socialism in one country”, it’s just another name for national socialism.
And it’s the People’s Liberation Army that permits Hsi (who is head of the Central Military Commission) to have the power that he does, not the people themselves who are subjected to constant surveillance thanks to US and other Western leftists giving them ever-more-advanced technology to conduct it.
Xi is popular with Chinese for cracking down on endemic corruption and creating stable government institutions.
Whether that will leave China a more prosperous and less conflict-ridden society remains to be seen.
A lot of hard work still remains to be done to make it happen.
I will not try to argue your points. You are likely correct.
However, the Chinese people by the hundreds of millions seem to favor the government they have at present. That fact is of some import
They accept it, but under duress. Many haven’t forgotten Tiananmen, to be sure, and how the west as a whole stabbed them in the back.
The existence of the one-party state is “endemic corruption” by definition. For Hsi to “crack down” on that, he would have had to wipe out the CPC and institute multi-party rule while rewriting the constitution to match the US Constitution. Instead, he’s strutting around in Mao jackets and preaching “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, which smacks of national socialism.
Thanks for the serpentZA recommendation!
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