MCLC: Xi Jinping's leaked speech

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Jacqueline and Martin Winter <dujuan99 at gmail.com>
Subject: Xi Jinping's leaked speech
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Source: South China Morning Post (1/28/13):
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1137727/xi-jinpings-opposition-po
litical-reforms-laid-out-leaked-internal

Xi Jinping's opposition to political reforms laid out in leaked internal
speech
By John Kennedy

The big thing over the weekend was this analysis
<http://seeingredinchina.com/2013/01/26/beijing-observation-xi-jinping-the-
man-by-gao-yu/> by Beijing-based writer Gao Yu, writing on a speech made
by Xi Jinping during his "southern tour"
<http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1101736/striking-workers-beaten-pol
ice-during-xi-jinpings-tour-guangdong> last month, translated at Seeing
Red in China by Yaxue Cao.

The text of the speech, which apparently was only circulated within the
Communist Party last week, is presented by Gao in a way which suggests Xi,
who blames those not "man enough" to do what had to be done to save the
Soviet Communist Party from itself, has even less intention of initiating
political reforms - namely, nationalisation of the military - than Hu
Jintao did when he took over as chairman of the Central Military Committee
in 2004.

Writes Gao 
<http://seeingredinchina.com/2013/01/26/beijing-observation-xi-jinping-the-
man-by-gao-yu/>:

<<I believe Xi Jinping’s new south tour speech will shock many party
members, let alone outside observers and the public in general. As the son
of one of Communist China’s founding generals, Xi’s speech reflects a lot
of his mindset and highlights his political ambition.

On the one hand, he wants to maintain the life of the CCP regime; on the
other, he wants to revamp the house in the hope of restoring the kind of
authority and legitimacy Mao Zedong enjoyed at the beginning of the
communist China. Such are the guiding principles, and the destination, of
his “road to renewal.”>>

In Guangdong where in preparation for the NPC/CPPCC sessions in March
local politicians continue to debate
<http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1133716/guangzhou-party-official
-make-assets-public-bootstrap-anti-corruption> public declaration of their
assets - pushed by some in the Party as an alternative to fixing systemic
defects - the mayors of Guangzhou, Foshan and now Shenzhen
<http://epaper.oeeee.com/H/html/2013-01/28/content_1801337.htm> have all
come out expressing willingness to make the first move. All they need,
they say, is for Beijing to say the word.

Meanwhile, up in Beijing, anti-corruption efforts have recently seen the
arrest of more than 1,000
<http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/detectives-01222013140038.html>
private investigators nationwide who play a key role in exposing corrupt
local officials.

Even last night, some sort of manhunt was underway
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/police-visit-chinese-blog
ger-who-exposed-sex-scandal/2013/01/27/a09568c6-689e-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8
_story.html> for high-profile indie journalist Zhu Ruifeng - whose
investigation singlehandedly brought down 11 government officials - led by
Chongqing police who had travelled all the way to the capital.