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[Editor’s note: On March 7, 2011, at the press conference of the 4th Session of 11th National People’s Congress in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said that, in its international position, China is still a developing country. Yang expressed the opinion that China can only play its role within its abilities because, based on the United Nation’s standard, China has 150 million people living in poverty. [1]

Mr. Yang’s views on China’s international position are a response to the international community’s question whether China should shoulder more responsibility in international affairs and whether the fact that China is now the second largest economic entity in the world means that it should no longer be considered a developing country. Why does China claim in public that it is still a developing country and how does China really view its position in the world? Below are excerpts from China’s media reports and experts’ studies on the topic.]

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[Editor’s Note: When China’s government controlled media talk about the “chaos” or “turmoil” in the Middle East (they never use the term “revolution”), many of them claim that the U.S. is the “black hand” behind the scenes and that the motive for the U.S. action is not to promote democracy, but its own interests. The theory section (Theory Channel) on Guangming Online, the website for the Guangming Daily newspaper that operates under the direct leadership of the Propaganda Department and the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, recently published an article, offering a new theory on the motive for U.S. actions. As the euro presents a great challenge to the U.S. dollar, the new U.S. strategy is to weaken its European allies and destroy the euro. The following is the translation of the article.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: According to Mr. Qiu Baoxing, vice minister of China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the average lifespan of a building in China is 25 to 30 years. A survey by China Youth Daily shows 83.5% of the interviewees believe the primary reason for premature building demolition is “local government leaders want to build their image and embellish their job performance.” The following abridged translation is from an article appearing on www.163.com, one of China’s largest news portals, titled “Why are China’s Buildings Short-Lived?”] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Guangming Daily published an article about the challenges that China’s mainstream socialist ideology is facing: “cultural infiltration from the Western hostile forces,” “the new technological revolution,” “the pluralistic value system in the market economy,” “the tortuous development of the international socialist movement,” and “the mode of communication in the Internet age.” The entire article is translated below. ] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: An article appeared in Red Flag Manuscript’s eighth issue of 2011, revisiting the history of the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It emphasized the role of the media in the events that took place. “Among many factors contributing to its fall, the failure of the leadership over media was an important one.” The author is a scholar at the School of Politics and Law at the Communication University of China. Excerpts from the article are translated below.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: An article appeared in Red Flag Manuscript’s 5th issue in 2011, analyzing “democracy chaos” in some Asian countries. [1] The author concludes “the expansion of democracy that the U.S. promotes has not brought about an economic boom or social development in these regions. On the contrary, it led multiple countries or regions to fall into political instability and even chaos. In some areas and countries, with the progress of so-called democratization, ‘chaotic symptoms’ have developed, such as ethnic conflict, splitting the nation, social turmoil, massive corruption, and an unstable political situation. This is the consequence of blindly applying a Western democratic system without considering local social and culture conditions.” Excerpts from the article are translated below.] [2]

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[Editor’s Note: A China Reviews News article expresses the belief that the intent of the U.S., U.K., and France’s air strikes in supporting the rebel forces in overthrowing the Qaddafi regime is to drive the Chinese companies out of Libya. The article further states that Western countries led by the U.S. are doing the same thing to China that they did to Japan in the 1940s, i.e., cutting off Japan’s access to oil, rubber, minerals, and other resources. The author believes that was the cause of the Pacific War in World War II. The entire article is translated below.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: He Qinglian, a Chinese author and economist, is famous for her book The Pitfalls of Modernization. She has conducted extensive studies on the Chinese government’s control of the media. The following is an article she wrote about the Hong Kong media’s connections with Beijing.] [1]

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