Next year, the Chinese Communist Party will hold its 20th National Congress. Xi Jinping, who has been in power for two terms, has no intention of stepping down and is bent on seeking re-election, or even a long term in power. This has become the biggest focus of Chinese politics today.
It is a focus, but also anxiety. The political elders are anxious that this man will not leave once he comes to power, regretting that they chose him in the first place; the top echelons of the Communist Party are anxious that this man has lost restraint and is doing whatever he wants to do, so what can they do? Xi Jinping himself is also anxious about his own greed for power and his desire to be re-elected, attempting to stay in power for a long time; but he also knows that there is so much opposition or ridicule inside and outside the party, at home and abroad, that it is difficult to gauge how great the risk will be in the future! He has no bottom in mind.
The crux of Xi Jinping’s dictatorship, power-loving and lust for power is that the CCP system has lost its binding effect on him. He can amend the constitution at will, for example, by forcing a constitutional amendment that eliminates the term of office of the president; he can violate the party constitution at will, for example, by stating that “the party opposes all forms of cult of the individual.” But Xi Jinping and his army are unscrupulously engaging in personal worship, putting Xi Jinping and his “golden words” on the front page of the Party media and Party newspapers every day, singing his praises without shame.
Common sense tells us that the more democratic a society is, the more power is restrained, and personal selfish desires can hardly override the public interest; the more totalitarian a society is, the more power is out of control, and the personal selfish desires of those in power can override the public interest at will, kidnap the public at will, and trample on the public will at will.
Power is like an aphrodisiac, making people rut, making people addicted, making people fall. This is especially true of power that has lost its supervision and control. Power leads to corruption, absolute power leads to absolute corruption, and the most deadly of all is corruption of the mind. Dictators, including Xi Jinping, Putin and Kim Jong-un, are all mired in deep corruption of the mind.
The much-criticized Xi Jinping may not be convinced: When it comes to long-term or lifelong rule, why is it possible for Kim Jong-un and not for me? Why can Putin do it and I can’t?
The problem is that Xi Jinping cannot compete with Kim Jong-un, because after all, it is a three-generation hereditary and has its own political inertia. North Korean politics is the most backward and reactionary politics in the world, and there is no way to change it for a while. But why should the Chinese Communist Party, which has undergone reform and opening up, have to refer to that worst model?
Xi Jinping is no match for Putin. Russia at least has elections and votes. Putin is so obsessed with power that he is trying to postpone it, but he also has to pass the national election test, the referendum hurdle.
Today’s Chinese politics is somewhere between North Korea and Russia, between extreme authoritarianism and semi-authoritarianism, perhaps giving Xi Jinping a sense of being born at the wrong time. Thus, Xi Jinping hates reform and opening up. He probably imagines that if there were no reform and opening up, he would have succeeded directly to the throne! Without the term of office of leaders, the people would not be able to point fingers at them, and he would have been able to stay in power until his death, just like Mao Zedong.
However, without reform and opening up, how could China have accumulated the national power it has today for Xi Jinping to flaunt and squander? How could his father Xi Zhongxun and his family have turned over a new leaf without the political changes that followed the death of Mao Zedong? In the end, without reform and opening up, how could Xi Jinping have gotten to where he is today?
In terms of the Party, Xi’s rise to the top was a purely accidental blessing, but it came not from Mao Zedong, but from Deng Xiaoping. But he hated Deng Xiaoping and loved Mao Zedong.
The author often says that the CCP wreaks havoc on the interests of one country with the selfishness of one party; now, on the basis of one-party dictatorship, Xi Jinping has returned to one-man dictatorship – not only wreaking havoc on the interests of one country with his own selfishness, but also wreaking havoc on the interests of one party with his own selfishness. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that after nearly four decades of reform and opening up (counting up to Xi Jinping’s rise to power), the Chinese Communist Party is in trouble. From the perspective of both democratic and authoritarian politics, the CCP is in trouble.
In terms of democratic politics, the CCP is not only backward but also seriously backward, lagging far behind the civilized world of the 21st century; in terms of authoritarian politics, the CCP has seriously regressed to the Mao Zedong era, to the Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago, or even to the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, not even the “enlightened dictatorship” of feudal dynasties, but darkness It is a dark dictatorship.
Xi Jinping’s bipolar line, that is, the extreme left line and the extreme dictatorship, certainly brings misfortune to China, in fact, it brings misfortune to the Chinese Communist Party itself. The reason is simple: the path of self-reflection and self-renewal for a political party, the path of political reform, has been completely blocked by Xi Jinping and the Xi family army.
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