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Interesting lineup of the Standing Committee. Why was their strength reduced from 9 to 7? Would it have any ramifications in the CPC considering how ambitious members were eyeing the prestigious seats on the committee?

I am so, so disappointed. Just some statistics:

In 1965, we were the 5th biggest economy in the world behind US, Russia, Britain and France.

In 1980, we were 9th.

In 1980-1990 our rankings dropped so bad we were out of the top 10.

We would not recover to 1965 levels until 2005. The difference between 1965 and 2005 was that in 1965 the Gini index was far lower.
 
Xi Jinping has been elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is a representative of the Chinese ‘golden youth’, appreciative of western values and a great lover of Hollywood.

Xi Jinping, the head of the fifth generation of Chinese leaders, is to rule China until 2023. He started his career in the eastern maritime provinces where the influence of Deng Xiaoping’s policy of reforms and openness was especially strong. This means that the new priorities in China’s economic policy announced at the 18th congress of the Communist Party of China by Hu Jintao, who is to step down soon, will be to the new General Secretary’s liking.

For the first time, the per capita disposable income is among the targets, along with the growth of the GDP. This aim is a response to complaints to the current generation of party leaders about the dramatically growing gap between the wealthy and poor segments of the population. Social polarization is beginning to have a direct impact on China’s policy, Deputy Director of the Institute of the Far East at the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Luzianin said in his interview with The Voice of Russia.

“A strong left-wing movement has formed in China over the last 10 years on the wave of displeasure with the dominance of the wealthy class, corruption and other negative phenomena. Part of this movement appeals to Mao Tse-Tung’s ideas of social justice, another part prefers other values of socialism and the class struggle. In fact, this left-wing movement used to be a serious destabilizing force in the country. However, the leadership curbed these left-wing moods and the situation stabilized ahead of the 18th party congress. The alternative to this left-wing movement is the right-wing liberal movement which is headed by current Premier of the State Council Wen Jiabao. This movement has its supporters and levers of influence. It relies on China’s evident economic achievements and the business class which has formed in the course of reforms. Strictly speaking, there is no classical private ownership in China but liberal reforms are in full swing anyway. The two movements have clashed and the new leadership has to find a compromise between these two alternatives on the wave of social reconciliation.”

Another interesting statement was made at the 18th congress of the Communist Party of China. It is the aim to build a society which would be prosperous throughout. Instead of equality in poverty the Chinese people are offered equality in wealth. Chances are that this attempt to expand the social base of the Communist Party by capitalists would bring unexpected results, editor-in-chief of the magazine Russia in Global Politics Fyodor Lukianov says.

“It is believed that the Chinese miracle and Chinese reforms began with Deng Xiaoping’s words that wealth is honourable. Contrary to what was said during Mao Tse-Tung’s time, he told people to enrich themselves. Twenty years later, Jiang Zemin introduced the theory of Three Representations, after which millionaires and billionaires were encouraged to join the Communist Party and even its highest bodies of power. This is a controversial situation. On the one hand, the result is a wider social base: factory workers, farmers, intellectuals plus honest businessmen. On the other hand, it is a destruction of fundamental principles and a very strong impetus for corruption.

The problem of the country’s future is growing increasingly strained. China is at a crossroads.

S. Duz
 
The glad thing is that The first the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Committee of the CPC be found, and Wang Qi shan be the leader and Politburo Standing Committee, that's all hint that CCP attach impotance to anti-corrutpion, that's good move, hope it work.

And so idiotic vietnam don't show your ignorance here, your fool comments disgust me, go to hug Uncle Sam, rubbish!
 
Vietnam is our friends after China recovered the Nansha Islands .
It's a difficult situation with Vietnam. On one hand we need to pacify them to prevent them from spreading into South China Sea. On the other hand, we need a stable Vietnam as a trade partner and southern gateway. That means while we apply military and economic pressure, we have to becareful not to cripple it.
 
You're treating the forum bantering as the real world. China, aside from let the US to station troops to station in Vietnam, has no problems whatsoever who's Vietnam dealing with and in fact probably encourage her to have good economic relationship with the US. A poor Vietnam is not in the interests of China if it's so she wouldn't help NK to develop her economy.

Yes, this deal is also nothing to do for our Chinese friends. The problem it's within Vietnam's interests or not, only.

Did you hear any outcries from China when Myanmar dumped her and trying to get close to the west? No but her companies are going to participate and compete with the west on developing Myanmar.

As you said the world has changed and let's move on for the benefit of next generations and not reminiscing what could have been if....

This is also nothing for them to complain, of course. Myanmar is just learning what the leaders of China has done ​​from over 43 years ago.
 
Party chief congratulates new Chinese leader
Updated : 11/15/2012 6:32:12 PM

CPV sends congratulations to China Party Congress
Party chief praises Vietnam-China relationship
China hails Vietnam visit by Xi Jinping
In his message, Trong expressed his delight at the great success of the CPC’s 18th National Congress and said he believes under the sound leadership of the CPC, Chinese people will be able to meet the target set by the congress and gain greater achievements in building socialism with Chinese characteristics.


LOL typical political phrases.
Especially I must laugh on this remark: "building socialism with Chinese characteristics". what ever it means. :rofl:
 
Why would or how could anybody be friendly to the untrustworthy ones?

On a serious note, if Vietnam and China were enemy, it would be bad for both, and it would be worse for VN than for China due to many aspects. So the two countries should strive to be friends.


untrustworthy? you mean we should do whatever you demand to get you like us? Forget it!

On a serious note, I agree that China and Vietnam should work hard to overcome differences. How´s about the idea of sharing interests and dividing regions in the world, like France and England did in their conlonial centuries? :D


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LOL typical political phrases.
Especially I must laugh on this remark: "building socialism with Chinese characteristics". what ever it means. :rofl:

I think it is a sincerity in his words, Mr.Trong, the party chief of VCP.

He is a conservative, who always adores and believes in "socialism"! [which I don't know now where it is].

and he is also a man pro-China...
 
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At the end of the week-long 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping --- probably China’s president and Party head for the next ten years --- led seven men onto the crimson dais of the Great Hall of the People. This chosen group will comprise the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), the pinnacle of political power in the People’s Republic of China.

Xi’s elevation to party chief was on the cards, but a surprise development was his immediate appointment as head of the Central Military Commission, which oversees the influential People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Outgoing party chief, Hu Jintao, had been expected to continue as CMC head for two more years before handing over to Xi. Now Xi, who will oversee China’s security, will not have to look over his shoulder.

Behind Xi was Li Keqiang, who is expected to succeed Wen Jiabao as premier early next year. Li is from the “populist” political grouping, dubbed the “tuanpai”, which traditionally upholds the interests of farmers, migrant workers and the urban poor. Xi belongs to the “elitist” grouping, dominated by so-called princelings (descendents of powerful party elites), with careers in economic management rather than the rural areas that the “tuanpai” focus on. The PSC has traditionally featured members of both groups, under the slogan “one party, two coalitions.”

Following Li, in third place, was Zhang Dejiang, the party fire fighter who was sent to Chongqing to clean up after the spectacular downfall of Bo Xilai, and his wife’s arrest and sentencing for murder. As the third-ranked leader, Zhang will chair the National People’s Congress, China’s nominal parliament.

Addressing the delegates, Xi identified intra-party corruption and “bureaucratism” as “severe challenges” for the Party. “We must make every effort to solve these problems. The whole Party must stay on full alert,” said Xi.

But the PSC’s composition did little to suggest that reform was in the offing. The party’s two most prominent reformers --- Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang --- who were watched closely as bellwethers of party intentions, have been left out of the PSC.

A surprise big winner in the behind-the-scenes jostling for control of power is former President Jiang Zemin, now 86, who was critically ill last year and written off by many as a seriously power player. Four of Jiang’s protégés --- Zhang Dejiang; Yu Zhengsheng; Wang Qishan, and Zhang Gaoli --- have made it to the PSC, leaving him with greater power over China’s future direction than outgoing chairman, Hu Jintao.

But Jiang’s protégés might remain in a majority only for the next five years. In the 2017, five of the PSC members, including all four Jiang protégés, would reach retirement age. In contrast, both Hu’s allies seem set to continue after 2017.

Jiang, an unapologetic economic reformer who had brought China into the World Trade Organisation and built a strong economic relationship with the west, has apparently criticized the current fourth generation of leaders --- Hu and Wen --- for backtracking on economic reform and, thereby, slowing China’s growth.

Profile: China’s 7 wise men

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(Clock wise, from top left) Xi Jinping; Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng; Liu Yunshan; Wang Qishan; and Zhang Gaoli

1. Xi Jinping. Party chief and slated to take over as president early next year. Folk singer wife, Peng Liyuan, may be better known in China than Xi. A princeling son of a former CCP leader, Xi is from the “elitist” faction.

2. Li Keqiang, likely to take over as premier next year. Risen from a manual labourer, he is from the “populist” faction. A protégé of Hu Jintao, Li will handle China’s economy.

3. Zhang Dejiang, became a front-runner for the PSC when he was sent to Chongqing this year to manage the Bo Xilai crisis. From the “elitist” faction, Zhang is a conservative who opposes economic, political and media liberalisation. A protégé of Jiang Zemin.

4. Yu Zhengsheng, is a princeling from the “elitist” faction, with known ties to Deng Xiao-ping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Yu’s father briefly married Mao Ze-dong’s notorious wife, Jiang Qing. A trained ballistics missile engineer.

5. Liu Yunshan, aged 55, is head of the CCP propaganda department. Has advocated “internet restraint” and could wield a heavy hand over media nationwide. From the “populist” faction, he is a close ally of Hu Jintao.

6. Wang Qishan, China’s key economic negotiator, he is dynamic and reformist. A princeling from the “elitist” faction, he is regarded as a protégé of Jiang Zemin.

7. Zhang Gaoli, a little-known former oil executive, who has managed Shenzhen and Tianjin. Economically reformist, he is from the “elitist” faction. A long-time protégé of Jiang Zemin.


Broadsword: China unveils its new leaders: Signals that continuity is more pivotal than change
 
:cheesy:
Probably not.

Same as before, if your actions are against our interests, we will respond negatively... if your actions help our interests, we'll respond positively.

Standard geopolitics.
Name any country that doesn't have their own interests:cheesy:
 
You're treating the forum bantering as the real world. China, aside from let the US to station troops to station in Vietnam, has no problems whatsoever who's Vietnam dealing with and in fact probably encourage her to have good economic relationship with the US. A poor Vietnam is not in the interests of China if it's so she wouldn't help NK to develop her economy. Did you hear any outcries from China when Myanmar dumped her and trying to get close to the west? No but her companies are going to participate and compete with the west on developing Myanmar.

As you said the world has changed and let's move on for the benefit of next generations and not reminiscing what could have been if....
ahfatzia I respect your view, but your view are not align with China. China Government have totally different view of the world, she think she can take this world by her self. Regard to Myanmar developing, China would not wanted to make a big deal because it will embrass China even more as it already did.
Look at the West specially USA we see how strong they are. China can never be like USA by her self, she needed all Asians to be on her side equally. Until then China will only be One Man Gang.
 
^^^And now you wonder why the Chinese here call you guys with different names. Stop trolling, would you. If you have some opinions to present you can always say them civilly instead of bad mouthing.
 
Too many princelings, China's political families are starting to form. This is going to be bad for political reforms and fighting corruption.
 
World leaders, parties congratulate Xi on election as CPC chief


BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of countries and political parties across the globe sent congratulatory messages Thursday to Xi Jinping on his election as general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

* U.S. President Barack Obama extended his warm greeting on Xi's assumption of the post.

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, under the leadership of the CPC, the Chinese people had made great achievements in building their country.

* Thomas Boni Yayi, rotating president of the African Union, said Xi's election showed the Chinese people and the CPC's recognition for the new party leader, who would lead the people into a powerful, unified, modernized and prosperous China.

* President Boni Yayi of Benin

* Nursultan Nazarbayev, chairman of the Nur Otan party and president of Kazakhstan

* Viktor Yanukovych, honorary chairman of the Regions Party and president of Ukraine

* Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said the Belarus-China relations had been greatly pushed forward on the basis of agreements already reached by the two countries.

* Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, also leader of the Republican Party of Armenia

* Bahraini King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa

* Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prime minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party, expressed his confidence that, under Xi's outstanding leadership, relations between the two nations as well as the two political parties would witness rapid growth.

* Najib Tun Razak, Malaysian prime minister and president of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO)

* Charupong Ruangsuwan, leader of Pheu Thai Party of Thailand

* Tennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

* Nikolai Levichev, leader of the Russian Justice Party

* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

* Sigmar Gabriel, president of Germany's Social Democratic Party

* Antonio Jose Seguro, Secretary-General of Portugal's Socialist Party,

* Pascal Nyabenda, chairman of the Conseil National pour la Defense de la Democratie-Forces de Defense de la Democratie (CNDD-FDD) of Burundi

* Alan Garcia, ex-president of Peru and president of the Peruvian Aprista Party

* President of Costa Rica's National Liberation Party Bernal Jimenez

And many many more........
 

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