Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews The 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is to be held within three weeks. Voices from Zhongnanhai alleging to make reforms continue to spread through official medias. Reforms were reported to involve various areas, including the economy, livelihood and culture. Is China really keeping up with the worlds trends in democracy? Or is it just CCP hype to create public expectation for its new leadership? Is it also perhaps the regime's tactic to keep maintain CCP rule by making minor changes in some fields. Is this helping Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang break through this dilemma, to make reforms or to maintain CCP one-party rule? In recent months, Zhongnanhai has continuously alleged that it will implement reforms. In suggesting it will make legal reforms, the regime released a new version of the "Two Whatevers", a statement which originally referred to undertaking Chairman Mao's wishes without question. The CCP State Council asserted that the government shall end its control over whatever issues that citizens, legal persons or other organizations can exercise their own discretion. No pre-approval shall be made for whatever items that can be supervised either retroactively or indirectly. All these seem to be a "warm-up" for the new CCP leadership to take office, led by Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. Internationally, the public holds two point of view on China's future. The first point of view believes that Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will promote opening-up, including political reform. In this way, Xi and Li will address the issues that have long entangled the CCP. These issues include corruption, democracy and human rights. This will offer China a soft landing before unleashing a firestorm of social conflicts, according to this view. Another view holds that the CCP is helpless to make any reform. The interest groups are thwarting all possible progress. CCP corruption will finally cause large social turmoil. The CCP regime boat will sink within the decade under the reign of Xi Jinping. Critic Lan Shu says that alleged CCP reforms in state media are still at the level of administration. They do not represent political reform in a real sense. Lan Shu: "It's not possible at all to make political reforms under one-party CCP rule, let alone its so-called administrative reform. There's no way for the CCP to make successful political reform. The core reason is that the CCP culture and mode of thinking have completely been weeded out." Lan Shu explains that CCP party culture is against humanity. It embraces the view that resorting to violence to hold onto the regimes power. Besides, the CCP's "atheism" totally does not believe in gods, Thus, those Chinese people wouldn't be protected by heaven. This is why Communists China wouldn't achieve high level of prosperities such as the Tang dynasty or the U.S.A. Some observers said that China's economy did not follow Justin Yifu Lin's prediction, but is slowing down. Lin, the World Bank's ex-Vice President, forecast that China could maintain 8% growth for the next 20 years. The downward trend exposes that in the past, the truth that social conflicts were covered up by double-digit GDP growth. The slowdown also downplays the role of so-called "superiority" of implementing political reforms. This will fuel the potential explosion of social conflicts, according to commentaries. Lan Shu warns the CCP's new leadership team. If they still keep holding onto the CCP political system, large social unrest will erupt, overthrowing CCP rule. Lan Shu: "It's just a matter of time for the CCP to collapse, which is beyond its leaders' willingness. It will occur very shortly, I believe. But if some people inside the CCP system choose to desert it by quitting the CCP, that will lower the risk in making social transformation." Lan Shu thinks that under huge international and domestic pressure, figures like Mikhail Gorbachev may emerge. Political commentator Wu Fan remarks that CCP reform claims only show its flimsiness. The regime is creating a positive atmosphere for its 18th Party Congress. These official assertions were released to create public expectation toward Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. Wu Fan: "You'll be really fooled by it if you just read the information that is released. But you can discern the truth after you dissect the remarks. They've never really wanted to make political reform. It insisted to maintain the CCP one-party rule and maintain the system. So, their trivial changes in some areas can only be called 'administrative reform', instead of true political reform." Gong Shengli, Chief Researcher of Beijing-based periodical Internal Reference on the State of China, reminds the public to distinguish the CCP from China. 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/

• published: 22 Oct 2012
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