Chris Buckley in the
NYTimes reveals that China's unelected and dictatorial Communist Party leadership fear that...
"...power could escape their grip [...] unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society."
These seven perils include...
- “Western constitutional democracy,”
- Promoting “universal values” of human rights,
- Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation,
- Ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,”
- “Nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.
Surely, however, any truly strong and legitimate authority fears no criticism, embraces shared values, and benefits from active citizen participation? Or do the so-called "leaders" of China fear the light of freedom and the true voice of the people?
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