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Hu Jintao Urges the Party to Fix ‘Unprecedented Challenges’
China’s communist system is reaching a dead end. General Secretary Hu Jintao implied this potential inevitability in a speech at a recent symposium.
According to a report published by state-run newspaper Xinhua on July 23, Hu spoke forcefully, saying that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “is confronted with unprecedented outside challenges,” and that “many urgent problems are appearing among party members and party officials.”
Raising a rarely mentioned subject, Hu talked about pushing political reform, but he stressed that leadership by the CCP must be maintained. Hu ‘s speech was widely televised and ran on the front-page of state-run newspapers.
Analysts believe that Hu is setting the tone for the Party’s 18th congress and, with all of the crises surrounding the CCP, higher-level officials have realized that reform is imperative.
Current affairs commentator Lin Zixu believes that Hu spoke truthfully. “The CCP is dying; many party officials are trying to find ways to save themselves, and many new members are only joining to seek personal interests,” he said. Lin believes the communist regime now spends more time thinking about how to escape the Party.
Ye Ke, who holds a doctorate in public policy, told New Tang Dynasty Television in an interview that there is a some agreement between the general public and Chinese officials regarding the current state of affairs.
“Currently, it seems that the communist system has reached a dead end. Hu knows very clearly that, not only the general public, but even CCP members, have this view of the communist party. Also, there is a trend toward international reevaluation of communist ideology. All this makes it very clear that if the communist party continues its authoritarian rule, there is nowhere to go,” he said.
Commentator Lin and Chair of the Chinese Social Democratic Party, Liu Yinquan, share Ye’s viewpoint.
Liu told Sound of Hope Radio, “Looking at both the international environment and the environment within China, if the CCP does not completely reform, then it will definitely be eliminated. If the CCP continues to stress one-party rule, then such reform will have no future. For the Chinese people, complete reform of the CCP and transition into democracy will be a very good thing that can prevent major shocks and disasters from taking place.”
Lin similarly pointed out the CCP’s increasing weakness. “Current public grievances are boiling in mainland China; more and more people are finding out information through various methods and know much more about the fundamental rights that they should have. They are becoming less and less scared, so the CCP’s foundation is getting weaker and weaker. If the CCP continues to employ its past methods to deal with the demands and wishes of the people, its rule in China will not last long,” he said.
However, Lin also thinks that Hu’s words might be a warning to those leftists and supporters of Bo Xilai.
“The CCP should make a decision on Bo Xilai before the Party’s 18th congress,” Lin said. “Hu Jintao is taking this opportunity to warn everyone that Bo Xilai has no chance of regaining any power. Bo Xilai’s cultural-revolution-style Chongqing model is already bankrupt.”
Read the original Chinese article.
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