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Deng Xiaoping (UK: ; US: ; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997), courtesy name Xixian, was a Chinese politician. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. After Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary (that is, the leader of the Communist Party), he nonetheless was responsible for economic reforms and an opening to the global economy. During his paramount leadership, his official state positions were Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1978–1983 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China from 1983–1990, while his official party positions were Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1977–1982 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981–1989.
Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan province, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he joined the party organization in Shanghai, then was a political commissar for the Red Army in rural regions and by the late 1930s was considered a revolutionary veteran because he participated in the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and the southwest region to consolidate Communist control.
As the party's Secretary General in the 1950s, Deng presided over anti-rightist campaigns and became instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward of 1957–1960. However, his economic policies caused him to fall out of favor with Mao, and he was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution. Following Mao's death in 1976, Deng outmanoeuvred the late chairman's chosen successor Hua Guofeng in December 1978. Inheriting a country beset with social conflict, disenchantment with the Communist Party and institutional disorder resulting from the chaotic policies of the Mao era, Deng became the paramount figure of the second generation of party leadership. Some called him the architect of a new brand of thinking that combined socialist ideology with pragmatic market economy whose slogan was socialism with Chinese characteristics. Deng opened China to foreign investment and the global market, policies that are credited with developing China into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world for several generations and raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions. Deng was also criticized for ordering the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 and the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997. He was the Time Person of the Year in 1978 and 1985, the second Chinese leader (after Chiang Kai-shek) and the sixth communist leader (after Joseph Stalin, picked twice, and Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh) to be selected. He died in February 1997, aged 92.
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Police evacuate Tiananmen Square after car catches fire
A sport-utility vehicle veered into a crowd in front of Beijing's Forbidden City and then crashed and caught fire on Monday, killing three occupants and injuring tourists and security officers, police said.
Several people in the crowd were injured in the crash in front of the Tiananmen Gate around noon local time (0400GMT), a statement posted on the Beijing police's microblog said.
It said the vehicle burst into flames after crashing into one of the ancient stone bridges leading to the gate.
No other details were given, and it wasn't clear whether the incident was accidental or deliberate.
Traffic along Changan Avenue that runs in front of the gate appeared to be largely uninterrupted, although Beijing's subway announced it was closing the station closest to the gate and one of the exits in the adjacent station.
Tiananmen Gate is one of the southern entrances to the former imperial palace and stands opposite the sprawling Tiananmen Square, separated by several lanes of traffic.
The area is usually thronged by tourists from China and overseas, raising the possibility that large numbers of people could have been hurt.
The area around the square is one of China's most closely guarded and politically sensitive public venues.
Just to the west lies the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China's parliament, while many of China's top leaders live and work just a few hundred metres (yards) away in the tightly guarded Zhongnanhai compound.
Tiananmen Square is also heavily policed to guard against political protests as occasionally happens on sensitive dates.
The square was the focus of a 1989 pro-democracy movement that was violently suppressed by the military.
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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (Pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng, [tɤŋ˥˩ ɕjɑʊ˩ pʰiŋ˧˥] ( ); 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao Zedong's death, led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de jure leader of the Communist Party of China), he nonetheless was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. As the core of the second-generation leaders, Deng shared his power with several powerful older politicians commonly known as the Eight Elders.
Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he worked as a political commissar in rural regions and was considered a revolutionary veteran of the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and other southwestern regions to consolidate Communist control.
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October 15, 2018
America's foremost authority on Christianity in China, sociologist Fenggang Yang explains the rapid growth of Protestantism and Catholicism in China since 1980. Yang is professor of sociology and director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. He is author of the 2018 publication Atlas of Religion in China.
His talk is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity and part of the initiative on Catholics & Cultures at Holy Cross. Learn more at
DENG XIAOPING - WikiVidi Documentary
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. After Chairman Mao Zedong's death, Deng led his country through far-reaching market-economy reforms. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary , he nonetheless was responsible for economic reforms and an opening to the global economy. Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan province, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was convinced of Marxism-Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he joined the party organization in Shanghai, then was a political commissar for the Red Army in rural regions and by the late 1930s was considered a revolutionary veteran, because he participated in the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and the southwest region to con...
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00:03:23: Early life and family
00:05:31: Education and early career
00:08:37: Return to China
00:10:06: Political rise
00:10:45: Activism in Shanghai and Wuhan
00:12:04: Military campaign in Guangxi
00:13:14: At the Jiangxi Soviet
00:15:42: The Long March
00:17:22: Japanese Invasion
00:18:47: As Mayor of Chongqing
00:20:46: Political rise in Beijing
00:23:44: Cultural Revolution
00:26:37: 'Criticize Deng' campaign
00:28:43: Re-emergence post-Cultural Revolution
00:33:12: Opening up
00:41:48: Economic reforms
00:46:42: Export focus
00:50:26: Role in the Tiananmen Square protests
00:55:03: Resignation and 1992 southern tour
00:59:15: Death and reaction
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Louisa Lim: People's Republic of Amnesia | Talks at Google
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People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Square Revisited
Recorded in London, August 2015
On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China's modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim offers a much-needed response to the silence surrounding the events of June 4th, charting how deeply they affected China at the time and in the 25 years since.
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In What Circumstances are Tribunals Successfully Employed for Dispute Resolution in Maritime Cases?
November 19, 2018
24th Annual Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia
Moderator:
• Jerome A. Cohen, NYU Law
Panelists:
• Paul Reichler, FoleyHoag
• Peter Dutton, US Naval War College
• Jonathan Odom, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Henry Besurto Jr., Philippine Consul General, San Francisco
The annual dialogue was sponsored by the US-Asia Law Institute
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Maoists Clash in China
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After a leftist website continuously posted bulletins
denouncing Mao Yushi, Chinese writer Tie Liu
urged the rightist victims to jointly sue Mao Zedong.
Pro and anti-Mao blocs are clashing hard in China.
Analysts pointed out that although the CCP's
(Chinese Communist Party) regime has given up
Mao's line, Mao is the origin of CCP's rule,
which put the authorities in a dilemma.
Wang Tiancheng, former Beijing University lecturer
now living in New York, supports anti-Mao actions.
He said that people needed to know the past
so as to understand what path to take ahead.
Wang Tiancheng: Although Hitler invoked WWII,
Mao's atrocities are no less than Hitler's. In terms
of brutal persecution of people, he is no less.
The CCP led by him took power through violence.
The regime he created and ideology he left behind
continue to harm Chinese people today.
Wang Tiancheng believes that after Deng Xiaoping,
the CCP has basically given up the socialism route,
but since its power is from Mao's violent revolution,
it dares not totally negate but instead upholds Mao.
Wang Tiancheng: If they overly support Mao,
it will be hard to explain the economic reform policy
they implemented over the past 30 years; conversely,
they dare not oppose Mao either, as Mao played
a tremendous role in founding the PRC. The current
regime is actually handed down from Mao.
If they overly criticize Mao, then what is the basis
of their power? Therefore, overly negating Mao
equates to negating the CCP itself.
After Chinese economist Mao Yushi published
his article Unveil Mao Zedong's True Face,
the leftists continuously posted open letters
threatening to sue Mao Yushi. They also submitted
the letters to the Beijing Public Security Bureau.
On May 29, Maoists in Taiyuan held a so-called
indictment assembly to denounce Xin and Mao,
labeling them spies and traitors. Netizens said
there were less people at this provincial assembly
than in a regular cell phone store.
Author Tie Liu proposed that all the victims of
anti-rightist campaigns should sue Mao Zedong
at the Supreme Court for disregarding people's lives.
Tie Liu wrote, although this tyrant died decades ago,
his ideology is not dead, and his portrait still hangs.
Many political careerists and strong leftists in CCP
use him to impede the reformers and democrats.
Mao Yushi believes that Tie Liu and other victims'
prosecution of Mao Zedong is more of a gesture.
The Supreme Court cannot evaluate Mao Zedong.
It is the Chinese society's recognition of history.
He thinks authorities will focus on the confrontation,
although no official response has been received.
He also revealed that he has been receiving threats.
Mao Yushi: This seems to be a very serious issue.
Chinese authorities will certainly take note of it.
However, I don't know what actions they will take.
Someone threatened to harm me. He even left
his name and phone number. I ignored him.
American political writer Cao Changqing believes
the prosecution of Mao has symbolic significance.
It is suing CCP in disguise, as Mao is still its leader.
All of Mao's evil crimes belong to the CCP.
Without CCP, Mao couldn't cause such calamities.
Prosecuting Mao Zedong can enlighten the Chinese,
who can learn the true history and the power of truth.
NTD reporters Qin Xue and Xiao Yu.
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Giant golden statue of China's Mao dismantled
A giant golden statue of late chairman Mao Zedong has been brought down before its completion in China's Henan Province.
Cultural Revolution | Wikipedia audio article
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Cultural Revolution
00:02:37 1 Background
00:02:46 1.1 Great Leap Forward
00:06:03 1.2 Sino-Soviet split and anti-revisionism
00:08:05 1.3 Precursor
00:10:40 1.3.1 February Outline
00:12:06 2 Early stage: mass movement
00:12:16 2.1 May 16 notification
00:14:20 2.2 Early mass rallies
00:17:01 2.3 Bombard the headquarters
00:20:17 2.4 Red Guards and the destruction of the Four Olds
00:26:46 2.5 Radicals expand power (1967)
00:30:17 2.6 1968
00:32:05 3 Lin Biao phase
00:32:14 3.1 Transition of power
00:34:29 3.2 PLA gains pre-eminent role
00:37:56 3.3 Flight of Lin Biao
00:41:24 4 Gang of Four and their downfall
00:41:35 4.1 Antagonism towards Zhou and Deng
00:46:08 4.2 Death of Zhou Enlai
00:47:39 4.3 Tiananmen Incident
00:49:34 4.4 Death of Mao and Arrest of the Gang of Four
00:50:58 5 Aftermath
00:54:08 6 Policy and effect
00:58:29 6.1 Education
01:01:43 6.2 Slogans and rhetoric
01:04:29 6.3 Arts and literature
01:09:25 6.3.1 Propaganda art
01:11:54 6.4 Historical relics
01:14:10 6.5 Struggle sessions and purges
01:16:44 6.5.1 Death toll
01:17:53 6.6 Ethnic minorities
01:21:09 7 Legacy
01:21:18 7.1 China
01:21:26 7.1.1 Communist Party opinions
01:24:52 7.1.2 Alternative opinions
01:27:37 7.1.3 Contemporary China
01:29:18 7.2 Outside mainland China
01:30:50 7.3 Academic debate
01:34:41 8 See also
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The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to preserve CPC-style Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China simply as Maoism) as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked Mao's return to a position of power after the failures of his Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively affected both the economy and society of the country to a significant degree.
The movement was launched in May 1966, after Mao alleged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China, Mao insisted that revisionists be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials, most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. During the same period, Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions.
In the violent struggles that ensued across the country, millions of people were persecuted and suffered a wide range of abuses including public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, hard labor, sustained harassment, seizure of property and sometimes execution. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced, most notably the transfer of urban youth to rural regions during the Down to the Countryside Movement. Historical relics and artifacts were destroyed and cultural and religious sites were ransacked.
Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of military leader and proposed Mao successor Lin Biao in 1971. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gradually began to dismantle the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the Party declared that the Cultural Revolution was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People's Republic.
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping ; 22 August 1904 -- 19 February 1997) was a politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao Zedong's death, led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , he nonetheless was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. As the core of the second generation leaders, Deng shared his power with several powerful older politicians commonly known as the Eight Elders.
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International Communities Condemn Beijing Regime On the 25th Anniversary of June 4 Incident
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On the commemoration day of the 25th anniversary of
Tiananmen Square June 4 incident,
governments, media, civil groups and individuals in the world,
openly condemned the Chinese
Communist Party´s (CCP) massacre type behavior,
meanwhile the public mourned the students who gave
their lives during the incident.
Time cannot erase people´s memory, many voices directly
request the CCP to reveal the truth of June 4 incident.
Overseas Chinese people say that the CCP hasn´t changed,
killing still took place in China.
The international community should put their efforts
in to ending the system of tyranny in China.
180,000 Hong Kong people participated in Victoria Parks
Candlelight Vigil on June 4 in remembrance
of Tiananmen protests.
Some elderly people continued their remembrance all
throughout the past 25 years.
Some younger people who were born after 1990
and 2000 have also joined the event.
There have also been people from Mainland China
specially coming to attend the one-day event.
Some people on site shouted slogans:
Down with the CCP......
During the daytime of June 4, the US President Barack Obama,
was visiting Poland, in his speech he said:
On the same day 25 years ago whilst Poles were voting here,
tanks were crushing peaceful democracy protests in
Tiananmen Square on the other side of the world.
In the past, Obama rarely condemned China´s human rights
or mentioned June 4 incident in public.
Thus his address drew great attention from the
international media.
On the same day, people in the US, Japan, Malaysia and other
places, staged commemorations of June 4 event
and protested to the CCP.
Over 200 people including Wang Dan, a former student
leader of Tiananmen Square Students Protest of 1989,
demonstrated in front of Chinese Embassy in New York.
The Chinese Embassy shut their gates tightly.
The White House issued a statement, which said:
we call on Chinese authorities to account for those killed,
detained, or missing in connection with the events
surrounding June 4, 1989.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay,
requested Beijing to lift the truth on June 4 events.
Pillay urges China to release detained activists,
relax restrictions on discussions of 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Wu Fan, US-based chief editor of China Affairs magazine:
There is a great characteristic towards 25th remembrance
of June 4 this year:
The international media and governments alike,
condemned the CCP together. This rarely happened in the past.
The international community includes people in Mainland
China, their attitude has changed completely
to one of opposition to the CCP.
In the past, they would mention 'Hello, Deng Xiaoping!'
but not now.
Now when they talk about the CCP,
they would say 'damn devil!'
China-based human rights lawyer Teng Biao spoke
in Hong Kong´s June 4 rally.
Teng mentioned Chinese people who have been persecuted
over the past decades.
He said that 25 years have passed; the killing didn´t end in 1989.
The CCP used the name of law, the name of maintaining
stability and the name of a united country,
in other words, this regime has never stop killing people.
Teng also said that if one doesn´t stand up today,
one will be unable to do so tomorrow!
never look back, even if your head
is chopped off!
Netizens praised Teng´s determination and courage
to fight against CCP´s tyrannic rule.
Lan Shu, US-based current affairs commentator:
After 25 years, all the reform methods been used
as leverage by the CCP, have now ended.
The CCP is now running into a dead end .
Now governments around the world can see this clearly.
All have been reflected during this year´s 'June 4' remembrance.
Recently, the US military published a report.
It states: on the day of June 4 incident, a person observed
Tiananmen Square in his hotel room,
proving that soldiers of 27th Army, laughed as they gunned
down protesters, the crackdown was so cruel.
Another confidential file from the White House, revealed that
over 40,000 deaths and injuries happened during June 4 incident,
amongst them, 10,454 died.
Wu Fan: The CCP has covered up all the truth,
it still hasn´t admitted to it.
The CCP hopes the public will forget about it,
thus it can carry on its tyranny rule.
More and more truth clarifying materials come forth,
more and more information is readily available
to the public: it´s time to end the CCP.
Now the CCP internal struggles are intensifying.
Thus the battle from inside out, will bring an
end to the CCP dictatorship.
US-based blind activist Chen Guangcheng spoke
in Washington D.C.
He said that over the past 25 years, characteristics of
the CCP´s tyranny system and treating its own people
as enemy hasn´t been changed.
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China Power Transition : Tough road ahead
With the establishment of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in July 1, 1921, internal power struggle got underway aimed at capturing the state power. Consequently in 1949, Mao Zedong established the People's Republic and became the Communist Party's Chairman and ruled the country for nearly 20 years. However, the internal power struggle continued. In such a situation, Mao initiated campaigns - Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution aimed at containing the situation. He continued to rule China with much enthusiasm for the rest of his years. Meanwhile, in the final months of terminal illness, Mao anointed the relatively unknown Hua Guofeng as his successor. Yet following the Great Helmsman's death in 1976, the struggle for power and the direction of the party and country was still ongoing. Following Mao's death, Hua Guofeng attempted to step into the late Chairman's legendary shoes. However, his position was not secure, having only a scrawled note from the late leader to back his claim to be China's new Paramount Leader. The first challenge came from very close to Mao. Jiang Qing, Mao's wife and leader of the infamous hard-line leftist 'Gang of Four', was angry at being snubbed for Hua and audaciously tried to forge alterations to the Chairman's will, but was exposed and arrested for attempting a coup d'état. Deng Xiaoping, himself a revered revolutionary-time leader, would be an obvious rival to Hua's nascent leadership should he be allowed back from the political wildness. Deng sarcastically labeled Hua the 'whatever faction' and openly challenged the supposed infallibility of China's late Chairman, and his right to appoint a successor. This was the beginning of the end for both Hua's rule and the old Mao-day ways of the CPC. Deng became China's new paramount leader, and set about transforming the country. The struggle itself indicates fissures within China's leadership as well as its future direction. This program highlights the structure as well as factions of the Chinese Communist Party, history of power struggle, characteristic of politics in the Mao and Deng eras, transfer of Jiang Zemin era to the present. It also talks about the CCP leadership, Chinese ruling Communist Party, Congress, selection process of new leaders, among others. A Program by Journalist Pramod Raj Sedhain after retuning from Beijing, China.
China's Mikhail Gorbachev Now Expected
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Personnel appointment has kicked off in China after
the end of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress.
The role of CCP Central Political-Legal Commission (CPLC)
has been downgraded.
Shanghai and Chongqing have seen party chief reshuffles.
Commentators view the new round of personnel shifts as
lacking public scrutiny and legal procedure.
In other words, this is another round of power redistribution.
A mainlander reveals that the CCP crackdown has not yet abated.
And citizens no longer hold out any hope for CCP rule
they now only hope for a Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev.
After its top power handover, the CCP regime has started
other key leadership appointments.
On Nov. 20, CCP mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency declared
that Sun Zhengcai takes over as Chongqing Party chief,
Han Zheng, Shanghai mayor,
doubles as the city's Party chief.
The current CCP police chief Meng Jianzhu replaces
Zhou Yongkang as new head of CCP Central Political-Legal Commission (CPLC).
Zhao Leji, CCP Central Committee secretariat, concurrently
serves as head of the Central Organization Department.
En Guang, a democrat in China,
comments on these new personnel assignments.
He says, the CCP regime's political consultation system
has never gone through a real democratic process.
The practice started from the era of Mao Zedong's rule,
and remains today.
En Guang: A person can change a system,
and vice versa. Both can influence each other.
Now the problem is, the top ruler is nothing but a power
center. Will he employ his power in a way like Chiang Ching-kuo?
En Guang says that social conflicts have peaked in China.
With economic slowdown and massive land sales,
civilians' survival problems have been stretched to the limit.
If the authorities continue to expand administrative
spending, increase levy size, and
to default social welfare payments,
China will see a surge of mass protests, he thinks.
A commentary published on the New York Times said,
the most capable leaders ever are needed now to tackle
China's daunting economic, social, and political problems.
Cao Qingyan, rights activist in China, says that citizens
feel disappointed with the new CCP leadership team.
Cao Qingyan: Ordinary people, once joining the CCP,
will turn sour. That's because the system is bad in itself.
So whoever within the CCP will come into power
can offer no hope for it's citizens.
True fortune will only fall on the Chinese people
when the CCP perishes.
Cao Qingyan reveals that the regime's crackdown now
continues to grow across China,
even though the role of the CPLC has been ousted from
the CCP top ruling circle.
Cao Qingyan: So far as we know, petitioners in some places
in Shandong have all been put under house arrest.
So for our civilians, as long as the CCP still rules China
There will be no radical change, it's a disaster for the whole country.
Before leaving office, Zhou Yongkang concurrently served
as the head of both the CPLC and of internal security.
Under his jurisdiction are the organs of public security,
national security, procuratorate, courts, and prisons.
During Zhou's tenure, the budget on stability maintenance
reached 700 billion RMB yearly, exceeding military spending.
In the name of stability preservation, Zhou Yongkang
expanded police power to repress dissidents and the populace.
This resulted in an upsurge of mass protests in China.
Public data show that in 2011,
some 180,000 mass protests took place in China.
Mr. Jiang (Citizen in China): Checks and balances should
have existed among systems of public security, procuratorate and courts.
But now they have turned into three allies!
So how can we expect judicial independence in China?
Mr. Jiang remarks that information exchange through media
and the internet have helped awaken Chinese citizens.
He says that now the Chinese people are all waiting to see
whether Xi Jinpin will become China's Mikhail Gorbachev.
《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点
Guangzhou
Guangzhou (Chinese: 广州, literally wide state) (former common romanisation: Canton; less-commonly known as Kwangchow) is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the Pearl River, about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and north-northeast of Macau, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port. One of the five National Central Cities, it holds sub-provincial administrative status.
Guangzhou is the third largest Chinese city and southern China's largest city. As of the 2010 census, the city's administrative area had a population of 12.78 million, making itself the most populous city in South China. Some estimates place the population of the entire Pearl River Delta Mega City built up area as high as 40 million including Shenzhen (10.36 million), Dongguan (8.22 million) and most parts of Foshan (7.19 million), Jiangmen (4.45 million), Zhongshan (3.12 million) and a small part of Huizhou adjoining Dongguan and Shenzhen, with an area of about 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi). In 2008 Guangzhou was identified as a Beta World City by the global city index produced by the GaWC, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
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the memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao
the hall of the memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao