Friday, December 16, 2011

Mistaken Comparison of Chinese Protests to Arab Spring Protests

Recent Protest(s) in China is(are) not the Same as Arab Spring Protests and Should Be Left to the Central Chinese Government to Handle

As much as the West has been taught to think of Communist governments as a form of dictatorship which does not represent the people of the country and whose governance of the people is not pursuant to the will of the people, this is not true as a rule and is not true in China today or when after the Communists defeated the Nationalists (just as Fidel Castro came to power with the will of the people).

The source of our fear and criticism was due to the rule of Joseph Stalin, in particular, and of Chairman Mao, his protégé, who each ruled the two most powerful communist countries. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge helped drive the point home. It was the fear of Stalin and Mao which caused American intervention in Vietnam, when the Vietnamese wanted, primarily, was freedom from foreign colonial rule (just as America did) and sovereignty. Stalin and Mao ran their countries as dictators, and ignored the basic rule of law of their own communist governments.

They each caused great economic distress and suffering to their own people. In fact, in both countries, many of the loyal and true believers in Communism, people who helped liberate China from both foreign colonial interference (including the British imposed trade in Opium), and subsequently from the corrupt and dictatorial reigns of the emperors and of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party.

When China was liberated by the Communist Party, it was with the overwhelming wishes of the populace as a whole, and the Party gave extensive rights and freedoms to people who previously enjoyed no such rights (as a matter of law under the emperors, and de facto under the corrupt Nationalist governments.)

But both countries, under Stalin and Mao, had purges in which many of the true heroes of each country’s liberations, the dedicated Communists who fought and brought Communism and much more freedom and opportunity then previously enjoyed to the people, were in fact purged, persecuted, and suffered with loss of property, imprisonment, and/or death. In China, the list is quite long of dedicated, honest, intellectual communists who spent their entire lives working for the good of the people of China, under the communist rule, most of whom also risked their lives in the civil wars which brought Communism to China. The list includes people such as Liu Shaoqi who was the second most powerful communist leader in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping, also one of the most powerful leaders in China and a dedicated communist. The entire chaos and suffering of the cultural revolution were in fact an attempt by Chairman Mao and his protégé Lin Biao, people who sought to advance their own power and positions, to seize the legitimately earned positions of power and authority (and the love of the people of China) from Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping and many of their supporters, as well as that of the rivals in the Chinese military (the PLA) to Lin Biao. The only reasons that Deng Xiaoping survived the cultural revolution was that so many of the popularly supported, competent, honest people who had previously run the Chinese government had died or been destroyed by the Cultural Revolution that Chairman Mao had to “Rehabilitate” Deng Xiaoping to help Premier Zhou Enlai (truly one of the great leaders of the last century of all countries who risked his life to help liberate China and then devoted his life to serving China and enjoyed tremendous support, love, respect, and admiration by the people of China.) The list includes Peng Zhen, Peng Dehuai, and Tan Zhenlin, Chen Yi ) two respected vice-premiers of China) and PLA Marshall He Long.

But unlike a dictatorship which continues, after the death of Chairman Mao, laws were enacted in China to prevent the abuse of power by the government over people. People responsible for the atrocities during the Cultural Revolution, such as Jiang Qing (Chairman Mao’s wife and a leader of the Cultural Revolution) were imprisoned.

More importantly, China began a speedy evolution towards granting freedom and prosperity, both economic and social/political, to her people. The Cultural Revolution did not end until the early 1970’s, and the political situation did not stabilize in China until the 1980’s. In just a few short decades, China has made tremendous strides in all directions we consider critical in eliminating oppression. America, on the other hand, had full blown slavery for about a century after she got her independence, and did not enact comprehensive civil rights legislation until the Johnson administration. Enforcement lagged, while women and other oppressed groups fought (and are still fighting) for basic civil rights in America. For example, Gays were only allowed the right to serve openly in the military under the present administration.

It is undeniable that China the Communist Government in China could only start granting civil rights to her people when the Communists took power after World War II. She has had a only a brief time to go from an ancient system of dictatorial oppression devoid of any rights for her people, and was stymied in the process by the actions of Chairman Mao, Jing Jiang Qing, and others who acted with them and under their control to exercise dictatorial powers of oppression until very recently.

Unlike the dictatorships which find themselves besieged by protests, the Communist Rule in China was at the will of the people and liberated the people from thousands of years of internal dictatorships and oppression and foreign colonialization and exploitation. In fact, few countries have suffered so much, and at the hands of so many (including the so called “free western” countries, many of whom were and all of whom now are democracies.) Only the Communist takeover stopped this.

Furthermore, unlike the governments who find themselves besieged by people who want change, the Communists in China have been changing and reforming very rapidly, far more rapidly than in America. In fact, America seems to be headed backwards as economic civil rights violations are oppressing  a large section of our population to enrich the already wealth pockets of a select minority (the hallmark of any dictatorship) which is evidenced by the Occupy America movements.

Similarly, while corruption is a problem in China, it is a problem throughout the world, including America (i.e. Enron, Bernie Madoff, WorldCom, Governor Corazine, and the list is recent and endless). The problem in China, however, is at the local level, and the central Chinese government is aware of it and attempting to address it. Like our war on drugs, it will take time. American opinion of China, however, is inexplicably frozen in time as though the Gang of Four were still running the Cultural Revolution in China. We ignore the both the progress that China has made and the rate of change she is making it. We also ignore our own severe problems with civil rights, which are increasing. The talk of certain candidates for office in the Republican Party proves how tenuous our retention of civil rights in America is.

I should note that it is presumptuous of us to assume that China needs to reform towards American democracy, as the way China should be ruled is for the Chinese to decide. China has been victimized by foreign intervention for centuries and has earned its right to be left alone. China has good reason for wanting to be left alone to deal with the social unrest represented by the protests we hear in the news. Such protests were, in fact, created and/or exploited in the Cultural Revolution not to be benign movements to further legitimate claims, but instead were chaotic and cruel grabs for power by the Gang of Four seeking to take away the rights of the Chinese people and to oppress them so that the Gang of Four could obtain dictatorial powers while the entire country suffered horribly. This fact, along with a lack of information and the participation of a few Maoists left over from the era of Chairman Mao, led to the Tiananmen Square massacre as some of the leaders of China misunderstood the protests (which like the Occupy America movements were not led by a single group or had a single message) and feared anarchy and a power grab which those leaders had suffered under as a result of the Cultural Revolution.

Furthermore, in our abstract discussion of communism and capitalism, it is a disingenuous discussion as neither country is or ever has been 100% truly capitalist or communist. While China does grant capitalist incentives for individual initiatives and effort, America has always had socialistic programs such as Social Security and Welfare.

So, in conclusion, the reasons for the Arab Spring protests, and our support therefor, are absent from the protests in China, and any resemblance is mistaken. The Arab Spring countries were true malignant dictatorships which gave no civil rights to the people and did not rule by the will of the people, nor had they come to power by the will of the people. The Chinese Communists came to rule by the will of the people, overthrew true oppressive dictatorships and gave substantial rights and opportunity to the Chinese people, especially when you exclude the time and damage of and from the Cultural Revolution and the Anti-Rightist movement (Mao’s other purge). The Arab Spring countries refused to reform at all, while China has, on its own, been rapidly reforming herself, and is a relatively young country who is entitled to be left alone to do so. The “Western Style Democracies,” especially Japan and Great Britain, are hugely responsible for the suffering and oppression of the Chinese people. The Communist Government in China, is unfairly criticized, which criticism ignores: (i) China’s changes and rate of change; (ii) the length of time America and other “Democracies” took to become free democracies; (iii) the fact that America and other countries have their own civil rights oppression, including the new form of economic oppression; (iv) the inherent sovereign right of China to solve her own problems; and, (v) the fact that the Communist Party did, when it came to power, and still does, reflect the will of the people to rule and, in fact, the people who work for the party work very hard to improve the status of the Chinese people, whose quality of life has greatly improved in a very short time. Indeed, American fear and criticism of China is no longer based upon the actions of evil dictators like Stalin, but by the benign economic success of China and the threat she poses, through lawful actions, to surpass America in economic strength. Unlike America, which has ½ a million troops scattered throughout the world and an extensive offensive military capability which includes bases throughout the world, including at China’s doorsteps on many sides, China has no foreign bases, no troops based on foreign soil, and nowhere near the offensive strike capabilities of America.

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最近的抗议活动在中国(S)()不作为阿拉伯春天抗议一样,应留给中国中央政府处理

不亚于西方一直作为专政并不代表全国人民的,其治理的人是没有按照人民的意志的形式传授给共产党政府认为,这是不正确的,作为一项规则,而不是今天在中国的真实后,共产党打败了国民党(正如菲德尔卡斯特罗来到权力与人民的意志)。

我们的恐惧和批评的来源是由于斯大林的统治,尤其是和毛主席,他的得意门生,每个统治的两个最强大的共产主义国家。波尔布特和红色高棉帮助驱动点回家。这是斯大林和毛泽东的担心,从而导致美国在越南的干预,越南希望,主要是从外国殖民统治的自由(就像美国那样)和主权。斯大林和毛泽东跑了他们的国家作为独裁者,而忽略了自己的共产主义政府的基本法律规则。

他们各自造成巨大的经济困难和痛苦,以自己的人。事实上,在这两个国家,许多共产主义的忠诚和真正的信徒,帮助中国摆脱外国殖民干扰(包括英国对鸦片贸易)的人,并随后从皇帝的腐败和独裁统治,并蒋介石和国民党。

当中国共产党解放,这是民众作为一个整体的压倒一切的愿望,党给了广泛的权利和自由的人享有这种权利没有(下皇帝作为一个法律问题,和去事实上根据腐败的国民党政府。)

但根据斯大林和毛泽东两个国家,,已清除的专用共产党人谁战斗,并带来了共产主义,将更多的自由和机会然后以前享受的人,在每个国家的解放的真正的英雄,其实清除,迫害,并遭受损失的财产,监禁,和/或死亡。在中国,该列表是相当长的敬业,诚实,谁花了他们的整个生活,为中国人民好,共产主义的统治下,其中大部分也可能在内战带来了共产主义的他们的生活工作的智力共产党人中国该列表包括刘少奇等人,谁是第二个最强大的中国共产党领导人在文化大革命和邓小平,也是在中国最强大的领袖和一个专门的共产主义。其实整个文革的混乱和痛苦,寻求推进自己的权力和职位的人,毛主席和他的得意门生林彪企图夺取权力和授权(合法赚取的立场和爱中国人民)从刘少奇,邓小平和他们的支持者,以及中国军队(解放军)林彪的对手。邓小平幸存下来的文化革命的唯一原因是,许多民众支持的,称职的,诚实的人以前运行的中国政府已经死亡或文革被破坏,毛主席“平反”邓小平协助周恩来总理(真正上个世纪的所有国家都冒着生命危险,以帮助中国解放的伟大领袖之一,然后毕生致力于为中国和中国人民享有了巨大的支持,爱,尊重和钦佩。)清单中包括彭真,彭德怀,谭震林,陈毅)尊重中国副总理)和解放军马歇尔贺龙。

但不同的是专政,毛主席逝世后继续,法律在中国制定对人民的政府,以防止滥用权力。文革期间的暴行负责的人,如江青(毛主席的妻子和“文化大革命”的领导者),被判处监禁。

更重要的是,中国开始了对给予的自由和繁荣的,经济和社会/政治,她的人迅速演变。 “文革”没有结束,直到1970年代初,并没有在中国的政治局势稳定,直到1980年。在短短的几十年来,中国取得了巨大的进步,在各个方向上,我们认为在消除压迫的关键。 ,另一方面,美国已经完全成熟的奴役约一个世纪后,她得到了她的独立性,并没有制定,直到约翰逊政府的全面的民权立法。执法滞后,而妇女和其他受压迫的群体,争取在美国的公民基本权利的(依然在战斗)。例如,同性恋者只被允许军队服役,根据本行政公开的权利。

不可否认的是,中国共产党在中国政府只能启动时给予她的人的民事权利共产党人参加了第二次世界大战后的权力。她有一个只有短暂的时间去从一个古代专制压迫,没有她的人的任何权利制度,并在这个过程中阻碍了毛主席,江青荆,和其他与他们采取的行动,并根据其控制行使独裁权力的压迫,直到最近。

不同的是找到自己的抗议围困的独裁政权,在中国共产党的统治是人民的意志和人民千百年来的内部独裁和压迫,对外殖民和剥削下解放出来。事实上,很少有国家遭受了这么多,使许多人(包括所谓的“自由西方”国家,其中许多人,所有这些人现在都是民主国家。)手中只有共产党接管政权停止此。

此外,发现自己被围困的人想改变不同的是政府,在中国共产党人已经改变和改革非常迅速,远远比在美国更为迅速。事实上,美国似乎是为首的倒退,随着经济的侵犯公民权利压迫了我国人口的大节,以丰富的一个选择少数(任何专政的重要标志),这是占据美国运动证明已经富裕人群。

同样,而腐败是中国的问题,它是一个在世界各地的问题,包括美国(麦道夫,即安然,世通,总督Corazine,列表是最近和无尽的)。然而,在中国的问题,是在地方一级,以及中国中央政府知道它,并试图解决它。我们打​​击毒品的战争一样,它需要时间。然而,美国对中国的意见,是令人费解的冻结时间,虽然“四人帮”仍然运行在中国的文革。我们忽略了的同时,中国取得了进展和变化的速度,她是使其。我们也忽视了我们自己的公民权利,这是增加的严重问题。某些候选人在共和党办公室的谈资证明我们保留在美国的公民权利是多么的脆弱。

我要指出,这是我们冒昧假设,中国需要对美国民主制度的改革,中国应该排除对中国决定。中国一直世纪外国干预的受害者,并赢得了独处的权利。中国有很好的理由,希望独处,处理社会动荡,我们在新闻中听到的抗议代表。事实上,这样的抗议,在创建和/或利用在“文化大革命”不是要进一步的合法债权的良性运动,而是由四个刚带走了中国人民的权利对权力的混乱和残酷的争夺和压迫他们,使四人帮能够获得独裁权力,而整个国家遭受可怕的。事实上,从毛主席的时代,导致天安门事件,作为中国领导人的一些误解的抗议(就像没有占据美国运动,缺乏信息和参与一些毛派LED由单组或单个消息),并担心无政府状态和这些领导人遭受了“文化大革命”的结果作为下一个电源抢。

此外,在我们的共产主义和资本主义的抽象的讨论,这是一个虚伪的讨论,这两个国家,或者是否已100%真正的资本主义或共产主义。虽然中国不授予对个别措施和努力的资本主义激励,美国一直有社会主义计划,如社会保障和福利。

所以,在最后,阿拉伯春天的抗议活动,和我们的支持为此原因,是在中国的抗议缺席,以及任何相似之处是错误的。春季阿拉伯国家真正给没有公民权利的人民和人民的意志不排除恶性的独裁统治,也没有人民的意志,由他们来权力。中国共产党人来,以规则的人,推翻真正的暴虐的独裁统治,并给予实质性的权利和机会向中国人民的意志,特别是当你排除的时间和损害的,并从“文化大革命”,并在反右运动(毛泽东其他清除)。春季阿拉伯国家拒绝在所有的改革,而中国自身,得到了迅速改革自己,谁有权单独留在家中,这样做是一个相对年轻的国家。 “西式民主”,尤其是日本和英国,是巨大的痛苦和压迫中国人民的负责。 “在中国共产党政府,是不公平的批评,其中批评忽略:(一)中国的变化和变化率;(二)时间美国和其他”民主“的长度了成为自由民主;(三)的事实,美国和其他国家都有自己的民事权利,包括新的经济压迫形式的压迫;(四)固有的主权权利,中国解决自己的问题;(五)共产党的事实,当它来到权力,仍然,反映人民的意志来统治,事实上,为党​​的工作的人工作很努力,以改善中国人民的地位,其生活质量的过程中,在很短的时间内大大改善事实上,美国的恐惧和对中国的批评,不再是根据斯大林一样邪恶的独裁者的行动,但良性的经济成就和中国的威胁,她的姿势,通过合法的行动,经济实力将超过美国。不像美国,其中有半一个亿的部队分散在世界各地和一个广泛的进攻军事能力,包括世界各地的基地,包括在许多方面中国的家门口,中国有没有外国基地,在外国领土上没有任何军队隔靴搔痒美国进攻性打击能力。

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