Xi Jinping at the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Image source: Getty Images)
[Watch China News on November 14, 2021](See a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Dong Linshan) The Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the morning of November 12 to further elaborate on the just-concluded Communist PartySixth Plenary SessionThe meaning of convening.In response to a reporter’s question on “How China Examines the Content of Democracy”, Director of the Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaJiang JinquanPointed out that what China pursues isXi JinpingPut forward “the people of the whole processdemocracy“, aroused widespread heated discussion.
The press conference of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing on the morning of November 12. Deputy Minister Wang Xiaohui, Director Jiang Jinquan of the Central Policy Research Office, Han Wenxiu, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Committee of Finance and Economics, and Qu Qingshan, President of the Central Institute of Party History, interpreted and answered questions from reporters.
Xu Lin, vice minister of the Central Propaganda Department, said that in the face of the severe situation, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee believes that it is for Xi Jinping to coordinate the overall situation and resolutely overcome challenges. The meeting also confirmed Xi Jinping’s leading position in socialism in the new era. He stated that the most important outcome of the plenary session was the deliberations and approval of the “Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Centennial Struggle.”
The entire press conference focused on Xi Jinping alone, and did not mention the former leaders of the Chinese Communist Party such as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. The Taiwan issue, which is of concern to the outside world, has also not been mentioned.
In response to a question from the Phoenix reporter on “How China examines the content of democracy,” Jiang Jinquan, director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, said that democracy is not the patent of Western countries, let alone Western countries speak for themselves. He also said that the forms of democracy in the world are different everywhere and cannot be measured by a single standard. He emphasized that China will never accept the pretentious preaching of a “teacher”.
He criticized the democracy that Western countries are proud of. It is actually “a democracy governed by the basics, a democracy for the rich, not a true democracy.” He also said that China pursues “the whole process of people’s democracy.”
Many people are puzzled by the term “whole process people’s democracy”. This is a new term proposed by Xi Jinping in 2019. It was also criticized as an empty political slogan at the time. China has still not lifted the party ban, newspaper ban, and Internet. Forbidden, it is also questioned whether this kind of democracy “has the people’s consent?”
Yang Jianli, founder of the human rights organization “Citizen Force”, told the Voice of America on November 13 whether Xi Jinping himself fell in love with democracy? Obviously he doesn’t love democracy. I talk about democracy as the true meaning of democracy, not the democracy Xi Jinping talks about. But this person is very stubborn and persistent. He must want to find a civilized path in China. And this road to civilization is different from the mainstream road to civilization in human history.
Dr. Zhang Junhua, a senior researcher at the European Institute of Asian Studies, said that Xi Jinping’s theory of “whole-process democracy” is a defense of China’s existing authoritarian system; democracy and political freedom are actually two sides of the same coin, that is, there is no politics. How freedom talks about democracy is a problem; the so-called “people’s democracy” is an important point in the theory of “whole process democracy”. This is a problem in itself. It is not based on citizens. People do not have enough sources of information. How can we practice democracy?
Some Twitter netizens left a message saying, “Democracy is not Coca-Cola, the whole world has a taste”-I am afraid to drink the taste of dichlorvos. ——Democracy is not a sheepskin coat, any wolf can put it on. 1. Democracy has its basic elements, that is: freedom of speech, media freedom, freedom of party formation, opposition forces, open elections, unregistered free elections, separation of powers, judicial independence…
Fa Guang quoted and analyzed that: China will be a powerful country that does not take the road of democracy. This is a fact. And it is impossible for the West not to have a dialogue with the second largest power in the world-China.
Source: Look at China
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