What Is the Real Source of Turmoil?
Many people know and dislike the CCP's Machiavellian behavior, and loathe its struggles and deceptions. But, at the same time, they fear the CCP�s political movements and the resulting turmoil, and fear chaos will visit China again. Thus, once the CCP threatens people with �turmoil,� people fall into silent acceptance of the CCP�s rule and feel helpless in the face of the CCP�s despotic power.
In reality, with its several million troops and armed police, the CCP is the real source of turmoil. Ordinary citizens have neither the cause nor the capability to initiate turmoil. Only the regressive CCP would be so reckless as to bring the country into turmoil at any hint of change. �Stability overrides everything else� and �Nipping the buds of all unstable elements��these slogans have become the theoretical basis for the CCP to suppress people. Who is the biggest cause of instability in China? Is it not the CCP, who specializes in tyranny? The CCP instigates turmoil, and then in turn uses the chaos it created to coerce the people. This is a common action of all villains.
II. The CCP Sacrifices Economic Development
Taking Credit for the Achievements of People�s Hard Work
The CCP�s claim to legitimacy lies in the economic development over the past 20 some years. In reality, however, such development was gradually achieved by the Chinese people after the fetters of the CCP were slightly relaxed and, therefore, has nothing to do with the CCP�s own merit. The CCP has, however, claimed this economic development as its own achievement, asking people to be grateful for it, as if none of these developments would have taken place without the CCP. We all know, in reality, that many non-Communist countries achieved faster economic growth a long time ago.
The winners of Olympic gold medals are required to thank the Party. The Party did not hesitate to use the contrived image of a �great nation of sports� to eulogize itself. China suffered a great deal in the SARS epidemic, but People's Daily reported that China defeated the virus �relying on the Party's basic theory, basic line, basic principle, and basic experience.� The launching of China�s spaceship Shenzhou-V was accomplished by the professionals of astronautic science and technology, but the CCP used it as evidence to prove that only the CCP could lead the Chinese people to enter the rank of powerful countries in the world. As for China�s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, what was in reality an �olive branch� given by Western countries to encourage China to improve its human rights, the CCP uses to enhance its claims to legitimacy and to provide a pretext for suppressing the Chinese people. China�s �great market potential,� which is sought after by foreign investors, stems from the capacity for consumption of China�s population of 1.3 billion. The CCP usurps credit for this potential, and turns it into a keen weapon used to coerce Western society into cooperating with the CCP�s rule.
The CCP attributes anything bad to reactionary forces and the ulterior motives of individuals, while crediting everything good to the Party leadership. The CCP will make use of every single achievement to make its claim to legitimacy more attractive. Even the wrongdoing that the CCP commits can be turned into something �good� to serve its purposes. For example, when the truth about the rampant spread of AIDS could no longer be covered up, the CCP suddenly created a new identity. It carefully mobilized its propaganda machine, utilizing everyone from well-known actors to the Party�s general secretary, in order to portray the prime culprit, the CCP, as a blessing for patients, a destroyer of AIDS, and a challenger to disease. In dealing with such a serious life-and-death issue, all the CCP could think of was how to use the issue to glorify itself. Only as vicious a schemer as the CCP is capable of such ruthless behavior as brazenly or underhandedly taking credit and utterly disregarding human life.
Economic Disadvantage Caused by Shortsighted Behaviors
Facing a serious �crisis of legitimacy,� the CCP carried out the policies of reform and opening up in the 1980s in order to maintain its rule. Its eagerness for quick success has placed China at a disadvantage, termed by economists as the �curse of the latecomer.�
The concept of �curse of the latecomer�, or �latecomer advantage� as some other scholars call it, refers to the fact that underdeveloped countries, which set out late for development, can imitate the developed countries in many aspects. The imitation can take two forms: imitating the social system, or imitating the technological and industrial models. Imitating a social system is usually difficult, since system reform would endanger the vested interests of some social or political groups. Thus, underdeveloped countries are inclined to imitate developed countries� technologies. Although technological imitation can generate short-term economic growth, it may result in many hidden risks or even failure in long-term development.
It is precisely the �curse of the latecomer,� a path to failure, that the CCP has followed. Over the past two decades, China�s �technological imitation� has led to some achievements, which have been taken by the CCP to its own advantage in order to prove its legitimacy and continue to resist political reform that would undermine the CCP�s own interests. Thus, the long-term interests of the nation have been sacrificed.
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