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[China Watch]Will Beijing return to the Mao era | Xi Jinping | Common Prosperity | Mao Zedong

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[Epoch Times October 07, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Ning Haizhong reported) “On the streets of China, the Mao era is full of red slogans, all revolutionary slogans or the image of the’great leader’, to Deng Jianghu In the era, there were no slogans and slogans. They were all commercial advertisements. They were all handsome men and beautiful women. Now he got it back, and they all made slogans and political slogans. But in fact, did he return to the Mao era? It’s just spraying red paint.” An overseas observer viewed Xi Jinping’s actions in this way.

Just over two months ago, at the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China on July 1 this year, Xi Jinping dressed in a woolen suit and stood behind a podium with a hammer and sickle party emblem and gave a speech. When he spoke, he waved his fist and warned that “foreign forces” would “bring blood and blood in front of the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” of the people.

This image taken from different angles was circulated among the international media, and the outside world was deeply impressed.

On July 1, 2021, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Xi Jinping delivered a speech. (Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)

From Anbang, Tomorrow, to HNA, and now to Evergrande, the Xi Jinping regime is gradually gathering private capital. In fact, in the past few years, countless private enterprises have been absorbed and merged by state-owned enterprises in different ways during the tide of bankruptcy. In the name of “anti-monopoly” and “double reduction”, the authorities recently purged Internet technology giants and the education and training industry.

Even in social life, young people are not only controlled their freedom to play games, they are also required to learn Xi Jinping’s thoughts, and learning materials from abroad are severely restricted.

As Xi Jinping continues to show a tendency to turn to the left, observers wonder whether the official propaganda of Xi Jinping’s new era will return to the Mao era in disguise? China will have Cultural Revolution 2.0?

But on the other hand, people have also seen that the authorities continue to emphasize reform and opening up and support the “healthy development” of the private economy. Including Li Keqiang and Liu He have both spoken out on different occasions to appease private enterprises.

What exactly is Xi Jinping going to do?

Hu Ping, a scholar and honorary editor-in-chief of “Beijing Spring”, told The Epoch Times that Xi Jinping is not really going to return to the Mao era. He did a lot of things like he wanted to do in the Mao era, but he didn’t really cancel the private economy. He knew that without the private economy, he would not be able to survive, and it would immediately collapse and economic exchanges would collapse. He was taught a lesson during the Cultural Revolution. But he must say so.

Hu Ping further analyzed that those in power in the Chinese Communist Party were also aware of a very sharp contradiction, and he tried his best to cover up this contradiction. What is the contradiction? “What you have done and done economically in the past few decades after reform and opening up is completely contradictory to what you have done in the 30 years before reform and opening up.”

“He wants to know that the brand of socialism must be held. You were opposed to capitalism and building socialism at the beginning, and the armed revolution that you carried out took power. This is the basis for all of your existence. But originally, the dictatorship of the proletariat It is achieved through the Communist Party. Unless you claim that you are engaged in socialism and oppose capitalism, you have a reason to realize the Communist dictatorship.”

An online commentary collectively forwarded by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media on August 29 stated that China is undergoing a “profound change”. But this article was cooled after it sparked controversy.

Hu Ping said: “Since the reform and opening up, it has actually taken the lead in taking the capitalist road. Jiang Zemin’s three representatives have allowed capitalists to join the party. Isn’t that surprising? Your Communist Party’s definition is to eliminate the bourgeoisie. You ended up allowing the bourgeoisie to join the party. The Communist Party, don’t you contradict yourself? This is completely contrary to what you said. The Communist Party knows that this is a contradiction. He knows that if he wants to return to the state of Mao’s era, to be truly anti-capitalist, then his economy will plummet. That won’t work. He must still engage in capitalism. But if you engage in capitalism, you are tantamount to dismantling your own station, and your Communist Party has become a capitalist. Why do you say that you are still engaged in the dictatorship of the proletariat, so he must be decorated This facade must be repeatedly emphasized that he is the proletariat and that he is socialism. On the surface, he has to do many things different from those since Deng Xiaoping and Jianghu, and he appears to be more left-handed than others.”

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Current affairs commentator Li Linyi believes that Xi Zhen’s idea is a pragmatism, how to do it well. He chose to turn left.

“In fact, going to the left is a very easy choice, because the original orthodoxy of the CCP is to the left. You have to go to the right. For the CCP, it is not an orthodoxy. The resistance will be very high when it walks. So he chose Which way is easy to take, which way to take. In this way, he can control most of the people within the CCP,” he said.

Wang Juntao: Xi wants to rebuild the rules

At the meeting of the Central Committee of Finance and Economics on August 17 this year, Xi Jinping spoke directly to the “high-income” class and the group, emphasizing that “allowing some people and some areas to get rich first” is not for a few people, but for “common prosperity”. “. The core content of the conference is to manually carry out the “three distributions” of private wealth through taxation and other tools. This will allow the government to further intervene in the economy and take measures to allow the rich to “voluntarily” share the fruits of success.

In mid-September, the National Development and Reform Commission of the Communist Party of China disclosed that it will formulate an action plan to promote common prosperity and promote the establishment of basic institutional arrangements for the coordination of primary distribution, redistribution, and three-time distribution.

Wang Juntao, chairman of the China Democracy Party Committee, said that Xi Jinping wants to rebuild the Communist Party’s society, but it is not exactly what Mao Zedong did: “I think (Xi’s) real intention is to rebuild the Communist Party’s society. Mao Zedong’s revolution is directly to beat local tyrants and give you to you. It’s done. Now they are arresting Xiao Jianhua and Wu Xiaohui. He is arresting people and looking for some other reasons. But this company has to follow the current market rules, because foreign capital is needed, and these people still have foreign capital in it. To Xiao Jianhua and Wu Xiaohui The version called 1.5 is to arrest people. In fact, it is confiscated. Now Evergrande has started version 2.0. It will make you short of cash flow and make you debt crisis. Finally, it will be dumped and the state-owned enterprise will take over again. In this way, it will become It has turned the public into private. But it seems to be in a more civilized way and in accordance with the rules of the market.”

He believes that Xi has not yet reached Mao Zedong’s step, including against private enterprises. “In fact, when the Sino-US trade war was not fought in the past few years, when China’s economy began to fall precipitously, Xi Jinping came out to appease the people. I also ran to Zhejiang to see private enterprises. Now Liu He has come out several times to appease private enterprises because most of the Chinese economy is now supported by private enterprises.”

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Wang Juntao said that Xi Jinping must re-establish a rule to prevent these wealthy people from becoming too rich. On the basis of the so-called “three distributions” proposed by the CCP, Wang Juntao summed up the concept of “five distributions”: “The first distribution is called the market. In the middle, there are winners and losers. Some people make money while others lose money. The second distribution is Use taxation. The third distribution is to ask the rich to donate the money. If they don’t donate it, do the fourth distribution, let them go bankrupt, and let them collapse. Then nominally the country is taking over, and the money will not be given to the people. In the fifth assignment, he took the method of arresting Wu Xiaohui and Xiao Jianhua. I think Xi Jinping’s final thought is not to make these people rich.”

Hu Ping: Xi is spraying red paint

Although Xi Jinping seems to have no intention of completely eliminating market forces, he has shown a preference for Mao Zedong’s development theory.

According to official information, Xi Jinping pays more attention to ideological work than his predecessors of the Communist Party of China. The excerpts of Xi Jinping’s speech released by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media are full of Mao Zedong’s quotations. And a set of repackaged party theories in the name of Xi Jinping’s thoughts are covering the whole country and instilling them among the general public.

But Hu Ping said that Xi was actually just spraying red paint: “I always give this example. Just like everyone in China has seen, some agencies see that they want to check whether the greening is doing well, so he takes the green paint and paints it. The bare ground and stones are sprayed on. At first glance, it seems that you have done a good job of greening. It is actually not a planted tree or grass. It is sprayed paint. Also now you see Xi Jinping spraying red paint, you At first glance, China is truly red, it has become socialism again, it is engaged in communism again, and it has “not forgotten its original intention”, but what you see is red paint.”

Hu Ping said that from this perspective, we can understand why Xi Jinping wants to do something leftist. It doesn’t mean that he really wants to return to the Mao era. What he just did looks a bit like the Mao era.

What is the essence of the CCP’s “common prosperity” and “three distributions”?

Hu Ping analyzed the evolution of the CCP’s “common prosperity” from the era of Deng Xiaoping to the era of Xi Jinping to The Epoch Times.

In response to Deng Xiaoping’s “let some people get rich first”, Hu Ping said that since the so-called reform and opening up of the CCP, let some people get rich first. Communism, the one who wiped out the rich.

“You have eliminated the former rich people and turned their property into factories. Now you are about to reform and open up, and you have turned those products into your own property, and you have become rich. You made landlords and capitalists. All are defeated, and now you have become landlords and capitalists. So this situation is unprecedentedly bad.” Hu Ping said.

The powerful families formed after the establishment of the Communist Party of China are divided into the old and new. The traditional group is the so-called “eight elders” as the head of the elder families, which is also headed by Deng Xiaoping, and the new powerful families are headed by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. The two powers not only control the officialdom, but all their descendants have rampant state-owned enterprises after the June 4th Movement in 1989, quickly made their fortunes in the business world, and have now mastered huge wealth.

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Although the party and state powers all rely on privileges to maximize their wealth, the rich list over the years has wisely avoided them.

Regarding Xi Jinping’s so-called “three distributions” proposed in the new era, Hu Ping explained, “The key is the second step. The second distribution is in other countries, that is, collecting more taxes from the rich and taking money to subsidize the poor. All countries two This is how the secondary distribution is done, but China’s secondary distribution is the opposite.”

Hu Ping said that the CCP took the money. Instead, a large part of it subsidizes the rich. “For example, the cafeterias of officials are all inexpensive and good-quality, incredibly cheap. Their houses are the best houses, and they are very cheap when they are sold to them. Their medical treatment is the least expensive. The higher your level is. Higher, the more you can enjoy higher-level medical care. People who are generally unable to enjoy such advanced medical care can’t afford it. Even if you are a rich person, if you want to enjoy it, you have to spend a lot of money. But officials don’t have to spend a penny. , You can enjoy the best medical care in the world.”

“The same is true for old-age care. If you really want to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, you can just take down the high welfare and super high welfare for officials. That’s enough. But of course the Communist Party is not willing. It must give officials enjoy this. This kind of special treatment. In addition, it can also give a little bit to the poor, so in terms of face, it will also do some tricks to reduce the poverty of the poor and save some face.” He said.

The CCP authorities have recently emphasized the redistribution of wealth, which is the third distribution. Han Wenxiu, deputy director of the Finance Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, responded to questions at a press conference on August 26, stating that this third distribution is “on a voluntary basis, not mandatory”, “through charitable donations, etc.”, and does not engage in “killing”. The rich help the poor”.

However, the official statement has been questioned. After the CCP proposed “common prosperity”, under the continuous tide of purge, Chinese private enterprises have recently donated huge amounts of money to avoid disasters, including the original Bytedance CEO Zhang Yiming donated 500 million yuan; Tencent and Alibaba each donated 1,000 100 million yuan; Wang Xing of Meituan donated US$2.27 billion; Xiaomi Lei Jun donated US$2.2 billion; Huang Zheng of Pinduoduo donated more than US$2.2 billion and promised that the company’s net profit will be donated in full in the next year.

Tang Jingyuan: The CCP has never left socialism

The CCP’s market economy has always been regarded as state capitalism. However, current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan believes that the CCP has never left socialism. The difference between Mao, Deng and Xi’s three stages is only a superficial difference, which is only used by the CCP to accumulate power to annex the world. It’s just a blindfold.

Tang Jingyuan analyzed that the fundamental goals of Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong were actually the same, except that Deng Xiaoping modified Mao Zedong’s fundamentalist economic line and used more cunning and concealed methods to deceive the West for decades and successfully completed it. This is the phased task of the CCP to accumulate and strengthen its strength. When Xi Jinping took office, he believed that the stage for the CCP to accumulate power had been completed, and it was necessary to switch to “using power” to fulfill the “initial dream” of the red totalitarian rule of the world.

(The Epoch Times reporters Chang Chun and Luo Ya also contributed to this article.)

Editor in charge: Lin Congwen#

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