"Multi-Party System Can Lead to Political Corruptions"?

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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennewsThe international academic community generally believes that the multiparty competition helps curb political corruption. However, Fang Ning, director of Political Science Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, thinks otherwise. In his article, Fang Ning states, "The multi-party system can lead to political corruptions." The article has been widely reproduced by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) official media. Scholars view Fang's remarks as non-academic, ignoring the reality and defending the one-party dictatorship. The article is entitled, "The political corruptions under the multi-party system." It states, "After conducting researches in South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand, we found that in Southeast Asian countries the opposite is true: instead of forming a mechanism to mutually monitor and curb corruption, the multi-party system, forms a carve-up alliance." People's Daily, Guangming Daily and other CCP mouthpiece media reproduced the article. Hu Ping (Chief Editor, Beijing Spring magazine): "Firstly, his view is theoretically untenable. Secondly, it doesn't conform to the reality. Why are people disgusted by the CCP' stuff, thinking it's terrible and wicked? It's just due to Mao's era retroactions, high-handed political environment, awful economic mess and cultural stagnancy. Thus the populace began to demand a democratic system." Hu Ping believes in Mao's era the deprivation of individuals' freedom of speech, belief, press and assembly, among others, is the reason for so many great disasters in China. Tens of millions of people were persecuted simply due to Mao's wrong idea launched the Cultural Revolution. Only after the Chinese people's started to demand freedom and democracy, was the society pushed forward to open-up. Fang Ning claims that under pluralistic democratic system, frequent political changes bring faster and worse corruption. Moreover, political corruption involves interests of political parties and the ruling party, thus it tends to get political protection. Hu Ping says that with liberal democracy, no political persecution will exist. People can freely discuss and have full exchange of views. That will be much better than in a dictatorship. Hu Ping: "Freedom and democracy doesn't mean all issues are getting solved, but there are approaches to the solution. Likewise, enjoying freedom and democracy, we can have a good way to solve corruptions, but it doesn't mean all corruptions will be extinguished." Leader of Democratic Party of China, Chen Shuqing, says The balance of power is the best anti-corruption. Like balances among the executive, legislative and judicial government branches and mutual supervisions; as well as balances between citizens and government; and balance between opposition party and the ruling party. In the current world, the most corrupt countries are those under some form of dictatorship. Chen Shuqing: "The absolute power of one-party autocracy certainly leads to absolute corruption. His talk simply ignores the political status quo in the world. The so-called scholar's remarks can't bear the reality' rebuttal. It's nothing more than flattering the regime for personal benefits." Chen believes that Fang Ning's view sounds like creating artwork without a ground. And the best counter evidence for it are the CCP's "naked officials." While many problems in China were finally found to be attributed to the institutional problem. Chen Shuqing: "Many problems that China's ordinary citizens face, even those matters taking place in various sectors, such as rights violations, no legal protections etc., are all found to face institutional barriers, and can't get resolved." Fang's article also says, "The U.S. political system history witnessed that both political parties are far from effectively curbing corruption occurrences, but it became an important cause of triggering corruptions." Hu Ping translates the political message of Feng's words as: CCP rejects the multi-party system implementation and it will remain a one-party dictatorship. Hu points out that the one-party dictatorship means monopoly of the power. So its depravity is: you can't oppose corruption but I can. Anyone daring to fight corruption will be subjected to arrest. Chen Shuqing adds, if a scholar cannot understand the meaning of "absolute power leads to absolute corruption," then it raises the question of where has the scholar's knowledge gone? NTD reporters Chang Chun, Song Feng and Xiao Yu 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/