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[Editor’s Note: After an explosion of information and opinion sharing erupted on the Internet about the Wenzhou high-speed train accident, Red Flag Manuscript published a series of articles on how to control public opinion. One article stressed that “on major issues related to China’s fundamental political system and national interests, the media should resolutely align with the Party and the people’s position.” [1] It even advocated filtering and modifying the news to “integrate the truth of the news with the country’s national interest.” Another article emphasized that the “central media and main media should send out the first news” and that they should “form an emergency reporting group which would include reporters and editors loyal to the Party.” [2] A third article listed “the decreasing public trust in the government” and “Western hostile forces” as being the reasons that rumors have spread on the new media and suggested developing “opinion leaders” on microblogs who would lead public opinion. [3] The following are excerpts from these articles.]

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[Editor’s Note: An article published in Red Flag Manuscript, a periodical of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, discussed the U.S. strategy on international public opinion. The author is with the International Strategic Research Institute of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Party School. "The United States’ central position on global public opinion has led the U.S. to place a high value on the role of public opinion. In different periods of history, the United States always had a clear strategy on international public opinion. The goal was to influence and control other countries through the power of its media and to maintain U.S. supremacy in the world." The complete article is translated below.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: In an effort to rebut a suggestion to reduce state-ownership, Xinhua republished a Guangming Daily article that discussed the importance of state-ownership to China’s economy. The article argues that a public economy, especially an economy with state-owned enterprises (SOEs), is the keystone of the socialist system. State-ownership enables China to use SOEs to maintain a quick control of the direction of the market, to compete globally, and to achieve its strategic goals. The authors of the article are from the Marxism Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The following are excerpts from the article.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: On September 1, Xi Jinping attended the Opening Ceremony for the Fall 2011 Semester of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). [1] Xi gave a speech that focused on studying history in order to gain the wisdom to manage the country. Though his speech mentioned Marxism several times, Xi repeatedly stressed learning from the wisdom and examples of history in order to run the country and improve one’s moral standards. In the past, especially during Mao Zedong’s era, the CCP drew a clear line between Marxism and pre-CCP Chinese history (which they criticized as being a feudal society or a slave society). This may be an indication that the CCP recognizes an inadequacy in communist theory’s ability to provide an effective means and ideological ground for guiding its cadres development. The following are excerpts from Xi’s speech.]

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[Editor’s Note: Qiushi Journal republished an article from Beijing Daily on China’s political system. The author stated that China’s establishment of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics was inevitable in accordance with social evolution and claimed that socialism is superior to capitalism. The following is a translation of the author’s comparison of the capitalist and socialist systems.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Qiushi Theory Online republished a Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) thesis on applying Marxist theory to analyze the recent global financial crisis. The author is Wang Weiguang, the Vice President of CASS. Wang argued that most analyses of the financial crisis have been done at the surface level; however, to do a scientific analysis to determine the essential cause of the crisis at the system level, one must apply Marxist theory and methodology. Wang praised Marx’s theory of cyclical recessions and the inevitable demise of capitalism. He claimed that China’s socialist market economy can prevent recessions. The following are excerpts from his thesis.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Hu Jintao gave a speech on July 1, 2011, at the Conference to Celebrate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) 90th Anniversary. Outlook Weekly, a publication under Xinhua, published a collection of articles in which government think tankers explained their interpretation of important quotes from Hu’s speech. [1] Their views cover using economic expansion (instead of adjusting income distribution) to solve the income disparity in China, maintaining social stability, and strengthening the party’s leadership. The following are translations of select summaries from these articles.]

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[Editor’s Note: Study Times, a weekly newspaper published by the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), published an article that a professor from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences wrote, along with one of his students. The article warned that most of China’s Internet companies are controlled by foreign investment. This includes foreign companies, foreign investors, and companies that the Chinese have registered overseas. It held that the common practice for establishing an Internet company in China is to first register a controlling company overseas. This overseas company then either sets up a subsidiary company in China or finds an agent to register a company in China and then signs a contract to establish effective control over this China-registered company. Though Chinese own many of these overseas controlling companies, individual ownership is still different from state ownership. Also, it is easy for foreign capital to acquire these companies and thereby control China’s Internet business. The following are the main points of the article.] [1]

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