Xi Jinping's Constitution Dream Broken by China's Propaganda Department
A recent issue of Building the Party magazine,
a publication by the Propaganda Department of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP),
launched harsh criticism of the constitutional system.
It said that to have a constitutional system
is to implement bourgeois constitution,
put an end to CCP leadership
and subvert the socialist regime.
Some commentators say that after the new CCP leader
Xi Jinping came to power, he proposed a constitutional dream,
but the current social conflicts in China have intensified.
The leftists in the CCP don't want to give Xi any wiggle room.
The article by China's Propaganda Department alleged that
the constitutional system is a Western liberal political system.
In recent years, the Western constitutional thought and system
has become a topic of debate among China's legal and political
fields, and is raising heated debates on the constitutional system.
The article says that whether it's viewed from
the theoretical concept or it's being put into practice,
the term “constitutional system” is specific to
the implementation of the bourgeois constitution.
The article claims that if China had a constitutional system
it would abolish the CCP's leadership in China and subvert the socialist regime.
Thus, constitutionalism should never be
China's basic political concepts.
Political critic Lan Shu: "It reflects two aspects of meanings.
First is the extreme vulnerability of the CCP's system.
Second is that China's conflicts are extremely acute.
Why?
After Xi came to power, the reason he proposed the
'dream of a constitutional system' was to get more
opportunity and time for him to takeover power.”
Political critic Lan Shu says that in the current Chinese society,
the contradictions are so acute that CCP leftists
don't want to give more opportunities to Xi Jinping.
US-based political commentator Hu Ping: "These people
show their true face in the end by forcible threats.
Because they know a constitutional system
would put restrictions on their power,
and they aren't willing to accept any such restrictions.
So they spread an atmosphere of terror to try to suppress
the voice of constitutionalism and democracy."
US-based political commentator Hu Ping says that
Central Propaganda Department's perverse act may
actually inspire those intellectuals within the CCP system,
who feel that their voice can be heard, to make efforts to join
the ranks of those pursuing a democratic constitutional system.
Hu Ping: "Whether it's human rights activists, dissents,
or those in favor of a democratic constitutional system,
these people should spend more effort to firmly defend
the basic principles of constitutional democracy, and do this thing better.
It can completely fight back these things [of the CCP].
Meanwhile they should also realize that if the CCP attains its
goals, it will want more, and become increasingly fierce."
Beijing constitutional scholar Chen Yongmiao pointed out that
the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong had proposed
to catch up with the US and UK,
which showed that he also knew the
constitutional system is good,
but he didn't want to be controlled by a constitutional system.
It gave the Chinese people a feeling: We can still be
the same as the US without a constitutional system.
Beijing constitutional scholar Chen Yongmiao:
"It's the same old CCP.
Whether it supports or discusses the
constitutional system or not is irrelevant.
People see its true face and are clear:
Its nature won't change."
Former Southern Weekend commentator Xiao Shu says that
the anti-constitutional faction's argument isn't worth refuting.
Not only has the CCP never kept a promise
since gaining power,
now it even openly opposes the constitutional system,
which even Mao Zedong never dared to do.
The CCP's anti-constitutional faction
has been more crazed than Mao. |