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[Editor’s Note: The following is a translation of excerpts from an interview with Major General Luo Yuan, that was conducted by Nan Fang Du Shi Bao (Nanfang Metropolis News), a newspaper affiliated with the Guangdong Provincial Government.

General Luo, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Society of Military Sciences, is a high profile military scholar specializing in Sino-U.S. relations. Although not an official spokesperson, his views often echo the Party line. He offers his candid position on a number of strategic issues. In his personal understanding, China has three core interests: 1) China will never allow its socialist system under Party rule to be overthrown; 2) China must protect its territorial integrity; and 3) China will not allow any damage to the significant economic interests that sustain China’s development. From the significance the Chinese place on the order in a list, it is clear that Luo gives Party rule a higher priority than China’s territorial integrity.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: The following article, published in China Review News, was written by a research analyst from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The article summarizes how China and Latin America have been cooperating with regard to oil supplies.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s speech marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. In his speech, Xi said that the Chinese army was sent to the Korean War because it was “a just war that safeguarded peace and forestalled invasion.” “Sixty years ago, the Chinese people sent our volunteer troops to resist America because we were driven beyond the limits of forbearance. It was a righteous act carried out only to safeguard the peace and resist invasion.”] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Caijing magazine online recently published an article in which Professor Qin Hui of Qinghua University argues that the rise of the “China Model” is bad for the Chinese people, and is “only good for a few oligarchs.” Professor Qin made an interesting observation: Historically, China’s close allies (Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, etc.) are the worst offenders when it comes to mistreating their Chinese populations. However, in China’s enemy countries (the U.S. and Europe), ethnic Chinese enjoy a much better life. He attributes this “strange” phenomenon to the Chinese government’s treatment of its own people. He believes that China’s foreign policy should be oriented toward achieving China’s “best future,” not toward saving “the emperor’s face.” Professor Qin’s article garnered both praise and criticism from netizens. One wrote: “As long as Professor Qin is around, the Chinese people still have some hope.” The following is a translation of excerpts from the article.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: The following is an article from Qianxian magazine, an official publication of Beijing’s CCP Committee. The article explores the mechanisms used to set up a CCP organization inside a foreign-owned enterprise (FOE) in Beijing and shows some figures. For example, “The general Party branch in Siemens, China, which initially had one Party branch with 50 Party members, has developed into nine branches with nearly 300 members.” The author is the Party Secretary of the CCP Committee of the Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau.] [1]

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[Editor’s note: After the 5th Plenum of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee in mid October 2010, the Chinese official media intensified its criticism of Western democracy. The following abridged article explicitly criticized America’s multiparty politics, human rights and the separation of powers as being “fictitious” and “not achievable.” The author wrote, “When (China) develops its own democratic politics, it must not follow the Western path.” “If China adopts multiparty politics or federalism, China will fall into chaos and be ruined.” [1] The identity of the author, Wang Xuefei, is not known. Some bloggers think it may be a pen name. The article generated strong reactions in China; online polls allowed readers to cast “support” or “opposition” to the article. According to one source, an online poll conducted by sina.com registered 2,000 negative votes and 350 favorable votes. In another poll on ifeng.com, more than 10,000 people voiced their disapproval, and no one supported it. The poll results from both sina and ifeng were erased the next day along with readers’ comments. [2] The article’s strong rhetoric and the people’s reaction underscored the Communist Party’s diminishing ability to influence and guide public opinion.]

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[Editor’s Note: Shortly after China’s 5th Plenum of the 17th Party Congress, from October 21 to November 1, the Party’s official newspaper, People’s Daily, published five high profile articles by Zheng Qingyuan. According to one Chinese blogger, the name Zheng Qingyuan is probably a pen name for the Politburo writing team, and these articles represent the consensus of the Party’s inner circle [1]. The following report is a translation of excerpts from the third Zheng Qingyuan article, which focuses on China’s political reform. The author denies that China’s political reform seriously lags behind its economic reform. According to the author, the purpose of China’s political reform is to uphold the “Party’s leadership.” China has no interest in the Western system of “multi party politics or a separation of power into three branches of government.”] [2]

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[Editor’s Note: The following is a translation of an official media article that appeared in the International Herald Leader on October 11, 2010. It was written as a rebuttal to the September 26 New York Times article, “Three Faces of the New China.” [1] According to the article, “three symbols/indications that a nation is powerful are: that it possesses a full set of armor; it has the capacity to serve; and it has the ability to protect.” It criticized the U.S. by asking, “Or is the U.S. a ‘deadbeat,’ a ‘troublemaker,’ or a ‘blackmailer,’ who is counting on the whole world to pay the price for its debt problems, who vigorously eggs on Asia-Pacific countries to engage in a naval arms race, and who recognizes one China, yet forces a province in China to purchase U.S. weapons that cost an arm and a leg?”] [2]

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