China’s Coming Leadership Change Leaves Analysts Guessing. But at least some analysts saw something more. Third in the handshake line was Liu Yandong, a leader in the powerful State Council, one of the few women in the top party ranks and — some speculate — a future member of the nine-person oligarchy that actually rules this country. The Communist Party’s Central Committee holds its annual plenum this weekend in Beijing, and the formal agenda involves promoting Chinese culture to bolster the nation’s soft power. But the topic certain to be on everyone’s lips is that oligarchy, the Standing Committee of the Politburo, and who will rise to join it when its membership turns over. The answer, like almost everything about the Standing Committee, is tantamount to a state secret. So political junkies grasp at straws like the People’s Daily photograph, with its unstated pecking order, to divine who might run China after Mr.
Most analysts believe that the Standing Committee governs by consensus. Of the nine Standing Committee members, Mr. Protest and dissent in the People's Republic of China. In spite of restrictions on freedom of association and of speech, a wide variety of protests and dissident movements have proliferated in the People’s Republic of China, particularly in the decades since the death of Mao Zedong. Among the most notable of these were the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Communist Party rule, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, which was put down with military force, and the 25 April 1999 demonstration by 10,000 Falun Gong adherents at Zhongnanhai.
Protesters and dissidents in China espouse a wide variety of grievances, including but not limited to corruption, forced evictions, unpaid wages, human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ethnic protests, petitioning for religious freedom and civil liberties, protests against one-party rule, as well as nationalist protests against foreign countries. Background and Causes[edit] Legal Framework[edit] Tactics[edit] Rural protests[edit] Labor protests[edit] Petitioning[edit] Pro-Democracy protests[edit] Tibet[edit] Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics. THE UNITED States and the People’s Republic of China are locked in a quiet but increasingly intense struggle for power and influence, not only in Asia, but around the world. And in spite of what many earnest and well-intentioned commentators seem to believe, the nascent Sino-American rivalry is not merely the result of misperceptions or mistaken policies; it is driven instead by forces that are deeply rooted in the shifting structure of the international system and in the very different domestic political regimes of the two Pacific powers.
Throughout history, relations between dominant and rising states have been uneasy—and often violent. Established powers tend to regard themselves as the defenders of an international order that they helped to create and from which they continue to benefit; rising powers feel constrained, even cheated, by the status quo and struggle against it to take what they think is rightfully theirs.
Red Flag Manuscript: The Media Factor in the Dissolution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [Editor’s Note: An article appeared in Red Flag Manuscript’s eighth issue of 2011, revisiting the history of the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It emphasized the role of the media in the events that took place. “Among many factors contributing to its fall, the failure of the leadership over media was an important one.”
The author is a scholar at the School of Politics and Law at the Communication University of China. Excerpts from the article are translated below.] [1] This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Among the many factors that contributed to its fall, the failure of the leadership over media was an important one. The media become the de facto opposition party The political function is only one of many functions the media play. The major players in the opposition groups became the organizers of all kinds of sabotage activities that destroyed the CPSU and the Soviet Union. Blood, Justice And Corruption: Why The Chinese Love Their Death Penalty. ????? /Worldcrunch Of all the criminal cases in China, those involving corrupt officials sentenced to death arouse the greatest interest.
The morbid examples abound: from the public cheering for the recent death sentences for the two deputy mayors of Suzhou and Hangzhou to the executions of the head of the State Food and Drug Administration, of the Secretary of Justice of Chongqing City, and of the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. China is the global leader for the number of corrupt officials who are sentenced to death, and actually executed each year. But, judging by the seemingly endless “public demand” for this kind of punishment and the surging popular anger, it would seem that there is actually not enough of it.
So one cannot help but wonder, are there too many or too few executions in China? Strictly speaking, China has no “justice,” relying only on “political law” when it comes down to dealing with corrupt officials. China’s new Age of Enlightenment | The Art Newspaper. Openings China National Museum in Beijing looks to 18th-century Europe for its grand reopening By András Szántó. Features, Issue 223, April 2011Published online: 04 April 2011 Seeing the light: the National Museum of China reopened last month after a four-year renovation Imagine you are a rising global superpower of 1.3bn people. You have spent three decades ramping up a $5 trillion economy and upgrading your infrastructure. For the National Museum of China, on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the topic is the European Enlightenment. The choice is bold, and timely.
Occupying almost 30,000 sq. ft in galleries devoted to international culture in the newly renovated building, which opened last month, “The Art of the Enlightenment”, on view for a whole year, is notable not only for its theme, but for the circumstances of its organisation. The heads of state of China and Germany, presidents Hu Jintao and Christian Wulff, are the official patrons. Shining a light Cultural handshake Soft power Email*
Is China Overtaking America? by Joseph S. Nye. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space CAMBRIDGE – The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia’s return to what might be considered its historical proportions of the world’s population and economy. In 1800, Asia represented more than half of global population and output. By 1900, it represented only 20% of world output – not because something bad happened in Asia, but rather because the Industrial Revolution had transformed Europe and North America into the world’s workshop. Asia’s recovery began with Japan, then moved to South Korea and on to Southeast Asia, beginning with Singapore and Malaysia. This change, however, is also creating anxieties about shifting power relations among states.
But, even if overall Chinese GDP reaches parity with that of the US in the 2020’s, the two economies will not be equal in composition. Moreover, linear projections of economic growth trends can be misleading. China’s north and east have outpaced its south and west. The Sources of Chinese Conduct by Yan Xuetong. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space BEIJING – Six decades ago, the American diplomat George Kennan wrote an article, “The Sources of SovietConduct,” that galvanized American and world opinion, which soon hardened into the rigid postures of the Cold War.
Today, given China’s decisive influence on the global economy, and its increasing ability to project military power, understanding the sources of Chinese conduct has become a central issue in international relations. Indeed, better understanding of China’s foreign policy motivations may help prevent relations between China and the United States from hardening into rigid and antagonistic postures. Since 2008, discussions among Chinese scholars and strategists on the nature of their country’s foreign policy have focused on two issues: its ideological foundations, and China’s international appeal and standing – its “soft power.”
Domestic politics is always an important factor influencing a country’s foreign policy. Timeline: The Chinese Military's Major Diplomatic Events Since 1949. [Editor’s Note: Xinhua published an article with a timeline of China’s major military diplomatic events since 1949, when the Communist regime was established. The following is a translation of the timeline.] [1] • January 1949, China sent military attaches to the USSR and Eastern European countries. • March 1951, the International Liaison Department of the Central Military Commission was established. • February 1952, the first group of military students from foreign countries came to China to study. • July 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. • June 1955, the 196th Army Division became the first military unit to be open to the outside world. • April 1959, China’s Senior-level Military Delegation visited eight countries including Eastern European countries and Mongolia by traveling through the USSR. • January 1972, China sent a representative to the United Nations Military Staff Committee. • July 1998, China published its first defense white book.
Outlook Weekly’s Special Interview with the Deputy Director of CCCMPS. [Editor’s Note: The Central Committee for the Comprehensive Management of Public Security (CCCMPS) is an agency in charge of social order. It is under the dual leadership of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council. The CCCMPS is a national system, with the Central Committee at the top of the hierarchy, and provincial and local level Committees penetrating to every level of the Chinese government.
Zhou Yongkang, the CCP’s security czar and a member of Politburo standing committee, heads the national CCCMPS, while local Party secretaries or deputy secretaries head committees at the local level. Officials or Party cadres from Party agencies and government agencies in police, judiciary, state security, culture, and other fields staff the committees. Outlook Weekly: What are the current key issues with respect to national security and social stability? Currently, some outstanding issues, which cannot be ignored, still exist.
Tibetan Monk in China Dies After Setting Himself on Fire. The act appeared to reflect the sense of desperation and futility that simmers among Tibetans who chafe at rule by China, which invaded central Tibet in 1951. The monk, Phuntsog, 20, belonged to the Kirti Monastery in Sichuan Province. The monastery has been a center of protest against Chinese policies and was especially active in the 2008 Tibetan uprising. “China’s violent rule in Tibet has escalated since 2008 to a point where Tibetans feel compelled to take desperate action,” Tenzin Dorjee, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, based in New York, said in a statement. “Phuntsog Jarutsang’s self-immolation is a window into the deep suffering and frustrations that Tibetans everywhere are feeling, and is an urgent cry for help that the global community cannot ignore.”
Phuntsog set himself on fire at 4 p.m. At some point, monks took Phuntsog’s body back to the monastery. Dalai Lama Speaks on Decision. Francis Fukuyama: Is China's Regime Next to Fall? Developers: ES5 builds are disabled during development to take advantage of 2x faster build times. Please see the example below or our config docs if you would like to develop on a browser that does not fully support ES2017 and custom elements. Note that as of Stencil v2, ES5 builds and polyfills are disabled during production builds.
You can enable these in your stencil.config.ts file. When testing browsers it is recommended to always test in production mode, and ES5 builds should always be enabled during production builds. This is only an experiment and if it slows down app development then we will revert this and enable ES5 builds during dev. Enabling ES5 builds during development: npm run dev --es5 For stencil-component-starter, use: npm start --es5 Enabling full production builds during development: npm run dev --prod npm start --prod Current Browser's Support: Current Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0. South China Sea Issue: The U.S. Moves from Neutrality to High-Profile Intervention. [Editor’s Note: Xinhua published an article analyzing China’s strategic position in the South China Sea dispute.
The author makes suggestions on how to deal with U.S. intervention on this issue. The entire article is translated below.] High-profile intervention after long premeditation This year, tension, which is closely related to the high-profile involvement of the U.S., has again developed over the South China Sea.
Earlier this year, Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell visited several Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. When a reporter asked a question about the U.S. position on the South China Sea, Campbell took advantage of the situation. He answered that he hoped to maintain freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and that the negotiations on the South China Sea should be multilateral.
Soon afterward, U.S. However, all previous U.S. China’s Response. A Segment from an Interview about China’s Foreign Policy. [Editor's Note: The following is an interview with a senior Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s foreign diplomacy, published on Xinhua’s International Herald Leader. Interviewee Lu Shiwei is the News Division counselor of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 and used to work in the policy research office of the policy research department (now called the policy planning department) at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand and was the Special Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regional Government office in Hong Kong.] [1] Lu Shiwei: Since the establishment of the new China, we have pursued an independent and peaceful foreign policy. In foreign diplomacy, we adhere to the principles but allow for flexibility at the same time.
The basic principles have not changed, and will not change. Q: Specifically speaking, what belongs to the “principles”? A: On our core national interests, we adhere to our principles and leave no room for compromise. The South China Sea: A sea of disputes. Comparing Chinese provinces with countries: All the parities in China.
Population control in Beijing: Air-raid warnings. Tracing the Myth of Vice President Xi Jinping of China. The CCP’s Management of Religions during the 11th Five-Year Plan. [Editor’s Note: People’s Daily published an article by the State Administration for Religious Affairs that reviews the CCP’s policies and decisions in the area of managing religion during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). It stated that the “The Central Committee (of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP]) pointed out … having the right understanding and handling of affairs relating to religion … is critical to the development and long-term stability of the Party and the nation.
The CCP’s achievements during the period included starting to use the “Regulations on Religious Affairs” as the main vehicle to regulate and manage religious groups, directing religious practitioners to adjust their religious beliefs to conform to socialist theory, developing new religious leaders, using religious groups around the world to promote the CCP’s religious ideology, and taking control of issues regarding international religious affairs.
The following are highlights of the report.] [1] 1. The Epoch Times | Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. A national strategic language for China.
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