The Biden administration has suggested that the battle between the United States and China is one between democracy and dictatorship, and Chinese Communist Party officials have used the “Chinese people” as a shield to avoid debating the system with the United States. According to Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring, the Chinese Communist Party’s claim of “the Chinese people” is absurd and ridiculous, and the biggest lie of all the Chinese Communist Party’s lies.
On April 28, President Joe Biden gave a speech to a joint session of the House and Senate, comparing the U.S. and China with “democracy and dictatorship” and saying that the U.S. must prove to the world that in the 21st century, democratic institutions can still effectively serve the people and overcome dictatorship.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC and director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, published a signed article in the official media People’s Daily, saying, “China (CPC) has no intention of denying the political system and development path of the United States or any other country, nor does it seek to promote China’s (CPC) political system and development path in the world, but if anyone wants to challenge the CPC, China’s political system and leadership system, the Chinese people will never agree. leadership system, the Chinese people will never agree to it, and China (CCP) will firmly defend its national sovereignty, security and development interests.”
The Voice of America cited an analysis on May 3 that Yang Jiechi’s words were Beijing’s response to Biden’s “battle between democracy and autocracy” but avoided debating with the United States on the system.
Hu Ping: Yang Jiechi Tells the CCP’s Biggest Lie
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring, said on the Voice of America’s Current Affairs program that Yang Jiechi’s article that “the Chinese people will never agree to this either” is absurd and ridiculous.
Hu said, “When did the Chinese people ever say they would not agree? It is clear that you, the Communist Party, do not allow the people to criticize. The Chinese Communist Party does not allow the people to voice their disagreement, and then it says that the Chinese people have no disagreement. So this is the biggest rape of public opinion, and this is the biggest lie of all the lies of the CCP.”
Regarding Yang Jiechi’s remarks, Hu Ping thinks: “Because he knows that in today’s world, whether a party is qualified to rule and whether a system has legitimacy and legality is ultimately determined by the people of the country. But the CCP’s rule is precisely based on depriving the people of their right to speak, and once the people have their say, then the CCP’s autocratic rule is over.”
Hu Ping said the CCP avoids debating the U.S. on the system because the result must be that the Communist Party loses.
He said, “First of all, you [the CCP] say it is a contest between democracy and dictatorship, of course it knows it is dictatorship, but it won’t, won’t, dare not go and publicly claim the hat, it can’t say I am dictatorship and then I come and debate with you, I am better than you.”
“Autocracy is something that can be done but not said, once you say it, you lose. So it this would be very difficult.” He said, “And if the Chinese Communist Party also says it is democratic, it can’t withstand three or two sentences of rebuttal, first of all, can the Chinese people criticize the ruling party? Can they criticize the leaders of the ruling party? By this measure alone, this democracy of yours (the Chinese Communist Party) is a lie.”
The Chinese Communist Party Repeats the Lie that “the Chinese People” Have Been Kidnapped
After Biden’s speech, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin also evaded the differences between the U.S. and Chinese systems by referring to the “Chinese people” at a regular press conference. In addition, in the article “100 Quotes Reviewing 100 Years of Party History” published by the Communist Party’s media People’s Daily in March, the last sentence is Xi Jinping’s statement at the mobilization meeting to study and educate the history of the Communist Party that “the mountains are the people and the people are the mountains.
The article also includes Mao Zedong’s “Chinese people are not afraid to die, still afraid of difficulties?”
In this regard, some netizens said: “‘The mountain is the people, the people are the mountain’, with the mountain can represent the people, really rogue; ‘the Chinese people are not afraid to die, still afraid of difficulties? It means telling the people to die for it, at any time, the people are worse than dogs and pigs in its opinion. The country that can speak that kind of words is the devil, lie rogue gangster ruling the country.”
The current atmosphere is much like that of the former Soviet Union and the United States at the beginning of the Cold War space race, said Andrew Nathan, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University, as quoted by Radio Free Asia on April 29.
Bonnie Glaser, director of the German Marshall Fund’s Asia program, predicts that “the ideological element will become more important in the future strategic competition between the U.S. and China.”
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