Chinese Politics Now: the Mass Line & Document Number Nine [黑金政治學01]

transpired in the last few years, and will
that you see on your screen. Movement are major changes that have already with relatively little scrutiny from the English-speaking preoccupation with wars elsewhere. of the subject, here's an excerpt of some the city of Li Ling, was confined in the party's Hunan, touted as a model center for anti-corruption nobody knew where he was." three other party members in Hunan described they endured less than two years ago, in separate nearly drowned, whipped with wires and forced punching bags, strung up by the wrists from face down, by their feet." "The party defines 'Shuāng Guī" as an order time and place to account for their actions. at least several thousand people are secretly this system." that the practice is legally problematic but involving party members in recent years were a party official said last month." cases of corruption among members last year, just to draw attention to an obvious problem propaganda says 173,000, the real number could higher. to minimize the number of victims, this is government is proud of, so we could instead figures. disappearing and being detained is certainly by the victims is much larger than their numbers that might involve the clichéd "women-and-children" to western reporting is the latent bias against who have become rich as part of the Chinese government officials", there's a significant those who would not normally condone this are not famous targets of derision like Bó to be persecutors of the innocent, as much to make headlines. that seems to have served as a manifesto for of the Communist Party. China by this reporter, Gāo Yú, who was last October that Xi Jinping, the Chinese draft [of Document Number Nine] himself'. In recent months, Mr Xi's administration has the influences of 'foreign forces'. Beijing's International Relations university is a threat to Chinese political thinking.' from radio, newspapers, movies, literature lifestyle and culture' […]" for Document Number Nine reaching the public was the source of the leak, she reported on this manifesto and the new leadership of the the prison system soon thereafter. in her own right, and she has been imprisoned the 1990s. same age as Xí Jìn Píng, but there's a indirect memory of the failure of the "Great memories of the Cultural Revolution, as an too young to share that perspective. from Gāo Yú's generation would regard Document attitude toward that chapter of history will Jìn Píng. it's hardly surprising that Document Number "historical nihilism", and establishing the self-congratulatory interpretation of the Party's mistakes in the future, and nobody mistakes in the past. press, nor even free discussion on the internet, eras of political reform, Document Number of China's future. past, the new direction indicated by the manifesto by the Communist Party turning against itself, members. Party officials persecuting one-another in a report focussed on an aspect of the story of "innocent victims", although in much smaller to quash all debate, China's vast and well-funded only to arrest all government critics but lawyers. obstructed, detained or beaten up while trying compiled by the lawyers and seen by the Telegraph. [One such lawyer] said he had been assaulted situation "is definitely getting worse". At least 50, and perhaps as many as 100 people audience's presumption that these 44 lawyers assume that the 44 lawyers reported here are for the 173,000 victims reported before. and nobody expects any of the facts of a case left to lament that this type of persecution is doing, we get a sense of the unfolding Communist Party jargon (and "dialectical materialist" of Maoist self-criticism since 2004 and of party stance on corruption." officials to study Maoist theory, particularly should be both a part of the people and capable gift giving, and the use of official cars, the public. and on busy shopping streets and has also in the leadership, led-- numerous 'self-criticism' their own success in connecting with the people." him to give up many of the perks of office. of the party. 'Document Number Nine' has promoted what party threat of the party's collapse due to internal it. Local officials complain about the drastic country, and the luxury sector has taken a though, he has launched the biggest purge Inspection Commission, the party's anti-graft under the leadership of long-term friend and of officials across the party, government, the face of the earth and are subjected to the Associated Press as 'a living hell.'" the threads of Document Number Nine, the Mass now unfolding under the banner of an anti-corruption that China is now in the midst of "the biggest to be extremely concerned about, and politically world has been silent on the matter, compare school-girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram. in the press, but also entailed formal statements action. to find any statement from your own political China's New Mass Line, Document Number Nine, torture of many thousands of people in China. let alone diplomatic overtures or hard foreign in terms of inncoent victims. a vastly larger scale, with much more important to such a simple equation. to declare their moral superiority to Boko Nigeria; it would rather more daring to call revile the new policy of the Communist Party, as left-wing have the least to say when China's as it has been under Xí Jìn Píng. of articles available online; I could find Number Nine, and perhaps two mentions of the don't think that either one has been addressed American news service, not even under vaguer and so on. in a pattern of wanting to pretend that China despite every clear indication that it will pursuing a very different direction, and they that we're choosing to ignore. press and human rights by accident, but publishing of repression really is part of their long-term as a totalitarian state. president, he has confounded hopes that he in the middle of an existential battle against values, press freedom, civil society and judicial on university campuses, but an internal memo that these subversions could lead to the country's alike are reluctant to name another Great are --for the moment-- crowded with contenders world is unusually eager to have China as the Mass Line movement have shown that China and that they're willing to spill blood within the renewed hostillities with Russia and the under the leadership of Xí Jìn Píng. reminiscent of Russia's Communist history, confronting Communism, here and now. records on freedom of the press, fair elections would never publish a manifesto declaring in principle, nor that they regarded universal their commitment through purges and political seems to be easily ignored in the context