Kissinger Attends Chongqing Red Song Gala
On June 29, 2011, the Chongqing Municipal government held a giant “Red Song Gala” at the Olympic Sports Center in celebration of the Chinese Communist Party’s 90th anniversary. It is claimed that 100,000 people at the stadium sang simultaneously along with the main singers, turning the sports center into a sea of song. Chongqing’s CCP chief Bo Xilai, along with former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger and other senior Party and military officials, attended the gala. The gala started by singing the song “Follow the Communist Party” and reciting “The Communist Manifesto,” followed by other “classic red songs.”
Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-06/30/c_121602838.htm
People’s Daily: Why Did China Establish an Online Blue Army?
An article in People’s Daily’s overseas edition defends China’s development of an online blue army. The article said, “With today’s rapid development of information technology, we need to effectively defend our country’s network information security. To achieve that goal, an excellent online blue army is required.”
Source: People’s Daily, June 27, 2011
http://military.people.com.cn/GB/15000230.html
Xinhua: U.S. Adopts Ambiguous Diplomacy in South China Sea Conflict
A June 30, 2011, Xinhua article characterizes the U.S. strategy in the conflict in the South China Sea sovereignty issue as “Ambiguous Diplomacy,” in which the U.S. government publicly portrays itself as a “neutral mediator,” while behind the scenes, it assists the smaller Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam.
Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2011-06/30/c_121606208.htm
There is No Need to Establish New Political Parties in China
Zhang Xiansheng, spokesperson for the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, stated on June 29, 2011, “The Communist Party and the other eight democratic parties have basically covered all of the social strata and groups in China and China’s multi-party cooperation system has a broad social base.”
According to Zhang, “Of the nine parties in China, the Communist Party primarily recruits from workers, farmers, solders, intellectuals and advanced elements of other social classes. The other eight parties have their respective focuses, attracting middle to upper classes [with backgrounds in] science and technology, education, culture, health, sports, and a portion of the new social strata.”
“He expressed that political parties must have a fixed range of organizational development, have a certain social basis, and must abide by the Constitution and relevant laws and regulations. The existing nine political parties in China have a relatively fixed range of organizations and development, basically covering all of China’s current social strata and groups, so there is no need to establish a new political party beyond the existing political parties.”
Source: Xinhua, June 29, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-06/29/c_121602398.htm
Chinese Media Asked to Write for the Party and People
Liu Binjie, Director of the General Administration of Press and Publications, the government body that oversees the media in China, said that reporters should follow the tradition of red journalists of older generations and write to record history for the Party and for the people. Liu complimented the current generation of reporters, saying they “have played an important role in guiding and building the core socialist value system, and greatly expanded the international influence of Chinese culture.” Liu emphasized that reporters should “be steadfast in ideals and faith, and be loyal to the Party’s course of journalism.” At the same time, Liu added, “Although the Party and the State protect all interview activities of news reporters, and have stressed that no organization or individual shall interfere with or obstruct the right of news agencies and reporters to interview, there are always some people and organizations who, under various pretexts, meddle with the normal activities of news organizations, and even collude with evil forces.” Liu made the remarks at the release of a book titled “China’s Red Reporters.”
Source: China News Service, June 27, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/cul/2011/06-27/3140304.shtml
People’s Daily: What is Behind the Freedom of Navigation
People’s Daily published an article by special commentator Chen Hu, Chief Editor of World Military, a bi-weekly journal of the People’s Liberation Army Branch of Xinhua. Chen commented on U.S. Secretary of State Clinton’s concern that the recent happenings in the South China Sea may unbalance the peace and stability in the region and threaten the U.S. national interest in freedom of navigation. "Although the South China Sea issue has been there for a long time, it remains the most active area for the world’s international shipping and maritime activities, and the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea has not been under threat. Be it most of the neighboring countries around the South China Sea or most developed countries, none have issued a similar warning about a crisis. Almost all of the rhetoric about the so-called "freedom of navigation under threat" came from the United States, which is thousands of miles away.”
“People often see someone use all sorts of excuses, such as ‘humanitarian crisis,’ ‘terrorist threat,’ support of the ‘democracy movement,’ etc., to intervene in the affairs of other countries. The end result is nothing but the intervener benefiting [from the situation] and the country involved and the surrounding area being plunged into war and turmoil.”
Source: People’s Daily, June 29, 2011
http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2011-06/29/content_857465.htm
How to Cut the Cake: Wealthy Government and Poor People
A University of Science and Technology Beijing professor and a financial analyst jointly wrote a recent article, which was reprinted in the CCP Central Committee’s Qiushi Journal. The article looked into how the fiscal relationship between the central and local governments contributes to the “wealthy government and poor people” phenomenon. “In the past 20 years, China’s per capita GDP grew 15.71 times from 1,892.8 yuan in 1991 to 29,762 yuan in 2010, while the central government’s fiscal revenue grew 45.27 times in the same period.”
Source: Qiushi Journal, June 22, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/jj/jjggyfz/201106/t20110622_88711.htm