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I just read with concern from the blogger column that one posting advocates the concept of "Chinese Communist Party equals China". I love China with all my heart and with all my soul, and I fully support our overseas students' and expatriots' demonstration of condemning distorted western media and backing our Beijing Olympics. Nevertheless we should NOT eqate our motherland with any political party, else such party will govern the people like a feudal emperor without checks and balances. I totally agree that CCP has come a long way and has vastly improved since 1989, and CCP is the best choice for the people at this transitional stage of rapid national development. I believe, due to the shere hugeness, contrasting diversities and often-problematic complexity of China, as yet we can't afford to embrace western- democracy which could bring social chaos and even civil war especially under western political infiltration. Perhaps in 15-25 years, when our average per-capita GDP and average education level reach a good level with a sizable middle class, then we can cautiously start introducing multi-party system. In the meantime, CCP should not take our loyalty for granted - it should win our support by honestly dedicating its work to the welfare of the people and seriously listen to grievances voiced by the under-priviledged. I have good faith in the current central leadership of Hu and Wen, nut the crucial key to success is an efficient implementation of the good-intended central policies in regional areas.
In the face of hostile foreign interferences and their sinister subversive activities, we ought to be united to defend our government and the ruling party. But internally, it is not in the interest of our motherland and the people to love a ruling party unconditionally - we should praise it for the good aspects of its governance ( such as safeguarding national integrity, favourable policy to the poor, raising education and health standards etc) and criticise it for the bad ones (such as corruption, weak anti-pollution law enforcement, inadequate control over regional officials grabbing lands from peasants, slow expansion of general election at grass-root level etc). Blind loyalty to a party will create absolute power which will inevitably lead to absolute corruption. A longstanding one-party system provides an endless and convenient excuse for foreign critics to demonize China. |
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