"Erroneous" Western democracy not for China says official

[Coventina]

Source: International Herald-Tribune

BEIJING: China must build defences against "erroneous" ideas involving Western-style democracy, a top government official said in comments published on Sunday, shooting down recent calls by dissidents for political reform.

China's ruling Communist Party has stepped up efforts to stifle dissent and protest ahead of politically sensitive anniversaries this year, and amid concerns that rising unemployment in a slowing economy could fuel broad social unrest.

Jia Qinglin, China's fourth-most senior official, demanded officials throw their weight behind the one-party state in an essay in the Party's main ideological journal "Seeking Truth" (Qiushi), which was reproduced on major web portals on Sunday.

"Build a line of defence to resist Western two-party and multi-party systems, bicameral legislature, the separation of powers and other kinds of erroneous ideological interferences," said Jia, who is also head of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a largely toothless parliamentary advisory body.



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[ixion]

1. yeah, we don't do it much in the west, either

just lip service and token gestures. Mostly, though, it's corporatist.

[mattfromnossa]

2. I see.

But "erroneous" discrimination is for China? :cry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqXK6IY5gPg

[Cronopio]

3. The excesses of corrupt capitalism become solid propaganda points for the socialists.

Karl Marx must be laughing in his grave right now.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. He doesn't seem to understand the benefits of the capitalist West's Pax Rupertus Murdocha.

Though I believe they allowed old Rupe some kind of foothold in the Chinese media. Rather less than he'd have liked I expect. What, no "Pax Rupertus Murdochus" politics....?

For shame! Poor Milton Friedman, no more than a lurch and a grunt from the cave-dweller, would turn in his grave to hear these Chinese leaders' statements, unusually sage by capitalist standards.

[DonCoquixote]

5. So?

Does this mean some of you would like China's system? Where Multi=parties and separation of powers are "erroneous?" I expected that from freepers, not from folks here at DU.