Who cares about China?
November 15, 2012 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2012 at 3:01 pm by Something completely different.)
I dont know if anyone here has noticed, and frankly it seems like no one is taking note of it. But communist China is changing it`s leadership.
President and leader of the communist party Hu Jintau and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are stepping down. And the new Prime Minister will be Li Keqiang, and more importently the new President and head of the CKP will be Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping is a statement by the party, in the past 20 years admidst the enormous groath of the Chinese economy - corruption amongs party members has grown and been a enormous embaressment for the CKP.
As the gouverneur of Fujian has earned the reputation of being a "clean" man who doesnt take any bribes and lives a simple life. He is also the sun of a early communist activist and hero of the party from the 1960s, aswell as he is married to a very popular Chinese entertainer.
Xi also spent time in the US on a trip to learn agricultural management. He also spent alot of time in Latin America promoting buisnes releations between China and the Latin American countries.
Now China`s economical groath has been slowing down recently, the demand for cheap production labor is going down. The recent groath of the Chinese economy has created a middle class which has needs and is starting to make demands of it`s goverment. Chinas economy depends almoust completly on the cheap production of products developed elsewhere.
On foreign affairs, China faces challenges in the pacific and on it`s boarders with Russia and India with unresolved border disputes, aswell as a race in Asia over political dominance with India, and disputes with traditional oponents such as Vietnam, Laos and of course Japan.
The wests main issue of course\should be (zynical) human rights issues, where China will probably have to create a more just and free sociaty.
So from my perpective, the new Chinese goverment will face the following challenges:
Creating jobs through creating new markets.
Reforming social programs to appease it`s public.
Crack down on corruption.
Resolveing it`s border disputes.
Bringing inovation to the Chinese economy to compete in future.
Wrestle over worldwide influence with India.
Compete with the US over it`s influence in the pacific region.
Xi has the reputation of being a "reformer" but my hopes arent that high.
Programs have included free internet forums in which one can adress public problems aswell as offices, and the chinese beaucracy and legal system has been made much more transparent.
But only because you can now jell at the policeman who ignores you, this doesnt improve a system. Aswell as plastering a torchure chamber with smiley stickers wont make the torchure chamber a "nicer" place.
On a sidenote, I recently found out that Alexis de Tocqueville`s book on politics and revolution "The old state and the revolution" is book wide spread amongst the chinese communist party and has been read and sited by members in the highest ranks such as Xi himself.
In this book Tocqueville writes:
Considering the chinese publics demand for reforms and the reaction of their goverment recently - I guess this is the sentence which might explains why this book writen under the impression of the French revolution about the failed king Ludwig the 6th, is so pupular amongs leading figures of the CKP - paranoia that reform might lead to downfall.
edit:
Oh yes, I hope this is more of a "souther german catholic phenomenon", but please dont make any racist remarks about "Ching Chang Chinamen", aswell as to argue that communism is the result of "cultural and racial infiriority".
President and leader of the communist party Hu Jintau and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are stepping down. And the new Prime Minister will be Li Keqiang, and more importently the new President and head of the CKP will be Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping is a statement by the party, in the past 20 years admidst the enormous groath of the Chinese economy - corruption amongs party members has grown and been a enormous embaressment for the CKP.
As the gouverneur of Fujian has earned the reputation of being a "clean" man who doesnt take any bribes and lives a simple life. He is also the sun of a early communist activist and hero of the party from the 1960s, aswell as he is married to a very popular Chinese entertainer.
Xi also spent time in the US on a trip to learn agricultural management. He also spent alot of time in Latin America promoting buisnes releations between China and the Latin American countries.
Now China`s economical groath has been slowing down recently, the demand for cheap production labor is going down. The recent groath of the Chinese economy has created a middle class which has needs and is starting to make demands of it`s goverment. Chinas economy depends almoust completly on the cheap production of products developed elsewhere.
On foreign affairs, China faces challenges in the pacific and on it`s boarders with Russia and India with unresolved border disputes, aswell as a race in Asia over political dominance with India, and disputes with traditional oponents such as Vietnam, Laos and of course Japan.
The wests main issue of course\should be (zynical) human rights issues, where China will probably have to create a more just and free sociaty.
So from my perpective, the new Chinese goverment will face the following challenges:
Creating jobs through creating new markets.
Reforming social programs to appease it`s public.
Crack down on corruption.
Resolveing it`s border disputes.
Bringing inovation to the Chinese economy to compete in future.
Wrestle over worldwide influence with India.
Compete with the US over it`s influence in the pacific region.
Xi has the reputation of being a "reformer" but my hopes arent that high.
Programs have included free internet forums in which one can adress public problems aswell as offices, and the chinese beaucracy and legal system has been made much more transparent.
But only because you can now jell at the policeman who ignores you, this doesnt improve a system. Aswell as plastering a torchure chamber with smiley stickers wont make the torchure chamber a "nicer" place.
On a sidenote, I recently found out that Alexis de Tocqueville`s book on politics and revolution "The old state and the revolution" is book wide spread amongst the chinese communist party and has been read and sited by members in the highest ranks such as Xi himself.
In this book Tocqueville writes:
Quote:"Revolutions do not occure when a sociaties situation is unjust, but when it`s leaders attempt to reform and the population sees it`s injustice and demands for more."
Considering the chinese publics demand for reforms and the reaction of their goverment recently - I guess this is the sentence which might explains why this book writen under the impression of the French revolution about the failed king Ludwig the 6th, is so pupular amongs leading figures of the CKP - paranoia that reform might lead to downfall.
edit:
Oh yes, I hope this is more of a "souther german catholic phenomenon", but please dont make any racist remarks about "Ching Chang Chinamen", aswell as to argue that communism is the result of "cultural and racial infiriority".
