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President-for-life Xi Jinping Facing Massive Pushback From the CCP, Insider Claims
A former professor at China’s elite Central Party School has issued an unprecedented rebuke of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, accusing him of “killing a country” and claiming that many more want out of the ruling Chinese Communist party.
Cai Xia, a prominent professor who taught at the school, a higher education institution for top officials, was expelled from the party on Monday after an audio recording of remarks she made that were critical of Xi was leaked online in June. She is no longer in China. The school said in a notice that Cai, a professor at the party school since 1992, had made comments that “damaged the country’s reputation” and were full of “serious political problems”.
In her first interview[*] with English-language media since her expulsion, Cai told the Guardian she was “happy to be expelled”.
[*] 'He killed a party and a country': a Chinese insider hits out at Xi Jinping.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @12:40PM (14 children)
She is an upset lady.
She says that China's government is corrupt from the top. There is one guy in charge and he runs things like the mafia.
The party is what he says it is. The party Congress is scared to apply checks and balances and instead was forced to amend the Constitution to permit more terms for the leader.
The law is what he says it is. This I knew from seeing dealings with China from the outside, but I didn't know it was this bad inside to affect even Party Congress members.
She doesn't think it is salvageable. Remove the party from the roots is the solution.
Hope she is wrong. A major reboot in China would affect the whole world.
If she is even partly right, how did they get here. Does the guy just like power, or does he think he has a good end and the means is justified, or something else?
Might be yet another glowing example of if you give up liberty for security then you end up with neither.
Human nature seems to make reasonable human govenrment hard.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:18PM
Term limits were put in due to prior abuses of past leaders. They undid that lesson.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by VLM on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:19PM
I think he's interfering with the USA election in a subtle way by making comparisons with the historical Clinton-Bama-Biden axis of evil.
Basically accusing Xi Jinping of being Hillary Clinton, and guilt by association for Obama and Hair Sniffer Biden.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:23PM
They got here the same way everyone else does: the people complied to "reasonable" measures. Nobody likes crime, so we approve those investigative powers that they claimed. Those rebels are trying to corrupt the minds of our children, lock them up, kill them! Problems need solutions, and quick action. More power to the executive! Etc. Etc.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:23PM (1 child)
China is big on putting society and political stability before individuals. It's even ingrained in their movies and media.
Look at the movie Hero. [rottentomatoes.com] Fantastic movie and worth watching for the cinematography, art direction, and choreography.
It is a tale about the famed "Seven Kingdoms" era centered around the assassination of a brutal warlord. The narrative ends with a failed assassination when the warlord convinces the assassin that unity of the country and peace is better than justice, freedom, or revenge, even though it costs countless lives to achieve.
China says "it's for your own good" as they imprison and sterilize people.
China says "our products are perfectly safe" as people die from pollution, dangerous products, and tainted products.
China says "we just want there to be peace" as they crack down on Hong Kong.
That is the kind of message you see from leadership. It doesn't matter if the people in charge are right or wrong. They will do whatever they want and you'll like it, or else.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @02:08PM
Mind a person's actions over their words.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:32PM (8 children)
Odds are good that it'll affect the whole world in a positive way.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:31PM (7 children)
That may be one of the dumbest things you have ever posted. There is no universal law that "good triumphs over evil". I don't like the CCCP any better than the next guy, but a reboot may well give us something much worse. Those who can't imagine things getting worse simply lack imagination.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:37PM (2 children)
The outcomes have been pretty good in the long term so far for such reboots. And the present government of China sucks enough to make a reboot just not that high a risk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @12:00AM (1 child)
>And the present government of China sucks enough to make a reboot just not that high a risk.
The supply chain disruptions while this sorts itself out will be interesting.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 21 2020, @12:05AM
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday August 21 2020, @09:43AM (1 child)
Well, it is probably a good job that the CCCP (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик) [wikipedia.org] or USSR in English disappeared around 30 years ago.
Oh, you mean CCP (Chinese Communist Party) [wikipedia.org]? If you cannot even get your abbreviations correct then your argument is less convincing that you probably intend it to be. Typos can be a real bitch.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @10:15AM
Well, that's easy for you to say.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 21 2020, @01:00PM
"CCCP" = "Chinese Communist Party, of China?" Very Dodgeball. :-)
Or maybe you were thinking of Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, CCCP a.k.a. the USSR.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 21 2020, @01:22PM
*sigh* Too many Cs in CCP.