Chinese Communists identify seven western values that could ruin them (and liberate the oppressed people of China)

[mota bhai 2,675]

HONG KONG — Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.

These seven perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9 ... The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.

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The internal warnings to cadres show that Mr. Xi’s confident public face has been accompanied by fears that the party is vulnerable to an economic slowdown, public anger about corruption and challenges from liberals impatient for political change.

“Western forces hostile to China and dissidents within the country are still constantly infiltrating the ideological sphere,” says Document No. 9, the number given to it by the central party office that issued it in April.

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Opponents of one-party rule, it says, “have stirred up trouble about disclosing officials’ assets, using the Internet to fight corruption, media controls and other sensitive topics, to provoke discontent with the party and government.”

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Since the circular was issued, party-run publications and Web sites have vehemently denounced constitutionalism and civil society, notions that were not considered off limits in recent years.

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“Promotion of Western constitutional democracy is an attempt to negate the party’s leadership,” Cheng Xinping, a deputy head of propaganda for Hengyang, a city in Hunan, told a gathering of mining industry officials. Human rights advocates, he continued, want “ultimately to form a force for political confrontation.”

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The pressures that prompted the party’s ideological counteroffensive spilled onto the streets of Guangzhou, a city in southern China, early this year. Staff members at the Southern Weekend newspaper there protested after a propaganda official rewrote an editorial celebrating constitutionalism — the idea that state and party power should be subject to a supreme law that prevents abuses and protects citizens’ rights.

The confrontation at the newspaper and campaign demanding that officials disclose their wealth alarmed leaders and helped galvanize them into issuing Document No. 9, said Professor Xiao, the historian. Indeed, senior central propaganda officials met to discuss the newspaper protest, among other issues, and called it a plot to subvert the party, according to a speech on a party Web site of Lianyungang, a port city in eastern China.

“Western anti-China forces led by the United States have joined in one after the other, and colluded with dissidents within the country to make slanderous attacks on us in the name of so-called press freedom and constitutional democracy,” said Zhang Guangdong, a propaganda official in Lianyungang, citing the conclusions from the meeting of central propaganda officials. “They are trying to break through our political system, and this was a classic example,” he said of the newspaper protest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-leadership-takes-hard-line-in-secret-memo.html?pagewanted=all

Edited August 20, 2013 by amriki bhai

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Are you going to learn Mandarin, or Cantonese?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Are you going to learn Mandarin, or Cantonese?

Give America 100 years, we'll have them all tawkin' hillbilly before you know it.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Give America 100 years, we'll have them all tawkin' hillbilly before you know it.

If I am dead, does the Universe still exist? -- Not just any universe, but the same universe I was experiencing while I was still alive.

[mota bhai 2,675]

The American expansion westward can't possibly stop with Hawai'i. I'm confident we'll see a state in the 'far east' reasonably soon. China is weak so a Chinese province makes an excellent candidate.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The American expansion westward can't possibly stop with Hawai'i. I'm confident we'll see a state in the 'far east' reasonably soon. China is weak so a Chinese province makes an excellent candidate.

The US is retreating back across the Pacific. We keep giving up our colonies and military protectorates. South Korea will be on its own soon, thanks to Dennis Rodman,

[mota bhai 2,675]

The US is retreating back across the Pacific. We keep giving up our colonies and military protectorates. South Korea will be on its own soon, thanks to Dennis Rodman,

The Philippines currently have two Hamilton-class cutters, which are the largest class of vessel in the country’s Navy. The 378-foot warships support helicopter deployment and allow troops to effectively patrol its maritime borders. Since they were considered old and inactive, the US provided the two ships free of cost.

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Manila might acquire a third Hamilton-class cutter to boost its patrols, but a senior military official told Reuters that the Philippines might instead use its new funds to equip its two vessels with a missile system.

One of the cutters is already patrolling the South China Sea and the second cutter is on its way to Subic Bay, a former US Navy base that faces the disputed territories. In June, the Philippine military told Reuters that it plans to restore its air and naval bases at Subic Bay, and US officials said all of the military facilities the US is requesting greater access to are facing China.

“It’s for the protection of our West Philippine Sea,” Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmaine told the Associated Press, referring to Manila’s adopted name of the “South China Sea.”

On Wednesday, Rosario also told reporters that US spy planes frequently fly over regions that both the Philippines and China claim as their legal territory.

“We do have an interest in terms of what is going on with our exclusive economic zone, within our continental shelf, and we want to know if there are any intrusions,” Rosario said.

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The US is trying to establish a more enduring presence in the South China Sea. US defense contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries last year set up an operation to service US Navy ships at Subic Bay, and Ambassador Jose Cuisia recently told reporters that Washington would receive greater access to the country’s bases.

http://rt.com/usa/us-china-philippines-military-859/

[Darnell 8,479]

AraJit - back at post #1 - yawn. Really. Yawn..

why? is easy for cadre members to kill dissidents without explanation or recourse.

Till that changes? None of that other stuff matters.

[mota bhai 2,675]

AraJit - back at post #1 - yawn. Really. Yawn..

why? is easy for cadre members to kill dissidents without explanation or recourse.

Till that changes? None of that other stuff matters.

True, Chinese Communists are murderous savages.

[GandD 5,966]

The American expansion westward can't possibly stop with Hawai'i. I'm confident we'll see a state in the 'far east' reasonably soon. China is weak so a Chinese province makes an excellent candidate.

Taiwan would be a real F you to them. I doubt any party would go for it.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Scary.

The US Navy and the Philippines government are still at odds over two US ships that recently ran aground and destroyed portions of world heritage sights, because they wouldn't allow Filipino pilots aboard to safely navigate the waters there. You wonder where all that cooperation is.

Edited August 20, 2013 by The Patriot

[mota bhai 2,675]

Taiwan would be a real F you to them. I doubt any party would go for it.

Things change. Hawai'i was once unthinkable too. As was Alaska. Heck, once upon a time even Utah was a "hell naw!".

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The American expansion westward can't possibly stop with Hawai'i. I'm confident we'll see a state in the 'far east' reasonably soon. China is weak so a Chinese province makes an excellent candidate.

make it the Philippines..It would solve the over population problem..They would all be here

The US is retreating back across the Pacific. We keep giving up our colonies and military protectorates. South Korea will be on its own soon, thanks to Dennis Rodman,

Good, after several trips to Cebu ...That's all I am saying

I don't think they like Americans anyway

[mota bhai 2,675]

make it the Philippines..It would solve the over population problem..They would all be here

Sure. That works.

[Darnell 8,479]

I dunno - if China sneezes the wrong way towards Taiwan - it's so on - but does Taiwan have a big enough deep berth port or ports to handle our stuff?