China: Democracy, Family,Trade Unionism,an orderly Transition

In 1983 I was asked for a slogan for Russia by radicals. In 1991 a fundamental change took place in Russia. Since 1991 three churches a day have been built there. 

In 1999 a slogan for China was solicited from myself  by a radical with U.S. leanings. 

 In 2005 I came under pressure again for my views on China from a former Hong Kong resident with links to the US Embassy in Paris. 

In the case of Russia there was a lapse of eight years. In the second case, an answer is still awaited.

The future for China lies in a political freedom which reflects its economic freedom. The Draconian abortion laws must be repealed  along with the ban on other political parties and the politicisation of the army and police.

An overturn is required. 

The Chinese Communist Party made a Great Leap Forward  from state ownership between 1974 and the present.

A political change must match this shift. There must be an end to the one party state.

 My slogan for China: Democracy, Family and Trade Unionism.

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7.2.2022

Democracy with Chinese characteristics

No fatuous, self-serving penman should be allowed to interfere in the affairs of another country. It is clear that one-party government was perfectly in keeping with progress in the thinking of intelligent,well educated people in China.

NO COUNTRY IS PERFECT.

China is changing much to the delight of people such as me on who like helpless little children "when they're too young to hate". It is easy to be a nauseous imbecile when talking about a faraway country whose culture is very different.

One thing is overwhelmingly clear: China is a very different sort of society where disproportionate representation is given to minority ethnic groups and,as in Ireland,women are in charge and none the worse for that.

For those in China who admire Stalin too much,let us remember that it was Trotsky who discerned between nationalist gangs of looters and the ultimately successful Chinese national development movement since it has no more in common with socialism than it has with the man on the moon.

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8.1.2024

What the Soviet experiment proved is exactly what China has proved,namely that greatness arises from within like Marx's deus ex machina. Yeltsin's whingeing about "No more experiments" indicates the raving of a man and his party and their country which had cast itself adrift from their moorings,the great progress made under central planning and state capitalism.

The Chinese experiment has alarmed the USA.

For the benefit of the outsider,the US is torn between the automobile and the railroad and Hollywood and Evangelical Christianity.

These are weapons it has used to break down other cultures and societies.

We say, Chinese integral development is beginning to sour and yearly other industrial powers are emerging in obedience to the law of international interpenetration and economic intercourse.

The Chinese Dream must not be allowed to die but stiff tonics are required to correct its course if it is not to have to go cap in hand to the gingin in the IMF and World Bank at some future stage or perish on the rock of cheaper labour power and looser regulation from other powers.

Its non-alignment policy will not spare China the trials of imperialist predation.