Dear all,

On China CCP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M734o_17H_A How leader are make?

Extract from Robert Kuok Memoir: “In its 5,000-year history, I doubt that China has had as enlightened a group of leaders as during the past 30 years. They wanted their country to grow, and their people to prosper. Few leaders today compare with China’s in terms of true patriotism, selfless devotion to duty, and complete willingness to dedicate their lives to the causes of nation-building and raising the peoples’ standard of living.

In my business travels around China, I often came across incompetent or bigoted officials. Nearly every time I had a major tussle with one, or I met a dubious vice governor or mayor, I would come back and, in my judgmental way, tell my colleagues, “How can that man run such-and-such a city?” And sure enough, the next time I visited the place, say a year later, the man had been removed and a better man was in his place. I began to note to myself and to others that in Southeast Asia, a bad egg gets promoted; in China, a bad egg is removed.

 To my mind, the two greatest challenges facing China are the restoration of education in morals and the establishment of the rule of law.

A moral society cannot be attained through policing. You must begin at the beginning, and infuse the young with a strong sense of morality from a young age, both at home and at school. For centuries, Confucian principles provided China’s moral compass; they can do so again. 

The second important point is that China must strive to understand and implement the rule of law. This is more important than implementing democracy. It is a basic principle of the rule of law that everyone is equal before the law. In China today we have rule by man. Under the rule of law, even the General-Secretary of the Communist Party is not above the law.

I know many believe that it is impossible for a communist party to accept the rule of law. But I think that, if the Chinese Communist Party is to survive, the leaders of the Communist Party must adapt. Otherwise, the people of China will reject them and cast them out.

I only hope that the Communist Party will take the lead in implementing the rule of law. It will require a gigantic effort, as the culture must change and the legal infrastructure must be created.

You have to train upright judges and lawyers to uphold the legal system. This may take 20-30 years, but it must start today. If the party succeeds in this monumental task, then the road ahead for China is filled with hope for all mankind.”

The-surprising-way-the-chinese-communist-party-keeps-power

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-surprising-way-the-chinese-communist-party-keeps-power-20171127-gztdqm.html

Highlight:

When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter is that China is not a rigid dictatorship in the model of the Soviet Union but a restless experiment that is endlessly innovating in how to govern. "The big controversial idea at the heart of the book is 'Don't think of China as a big, simple case of authoritarianism

The party uses voting, elections, opinion polls widely and constantly. Keane says that China has an extraordinary total of about 800 polling agencies, and half are independent of the party. Many use cutting-edge Western methodologies.

Local villages commonly elect their own leaders. Local and regional governments conduct votes on matters like proposed developments and new parking laws. "In Beijing there was extensive polling by the party leadership to tread very carefully in introducing new public transport prices," reports Keane.

The party tries to read public opinion and the public mood by intensively surveying the internet. "We usually think of the Chinese internet with the party as a censorial body that crushes opposition and that is certainly the case", but it's much more. The party conducts online forums and debates on all sorts of matters at many levels. "Even live streaming of public forums is a part of the system," says Keane.

But hold on. It's a one-party state. There is no alternative. The people have no choice in who governs them. Why does the party bother? The essential reason is fear: "Fear runs through the party at all levels," says Keane. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/

The party uses its democratic methods not to grant democratic freedoms but to manage public grievances and avoid mass uprisings. The Chinese people are not as quiescent as many Western visitors assume. Every year there are an estimated 150,000 protests, rallies, demonstrations, occasionally violent ones, across China.

Thank you.

P/S: Imagine a society in which you are rated by the government on your trustworthiness. Your “citizen score”.  With 5G, Smart Phone, Surveillance Camera, Facial Recognition Algorithmic and AI imagine no more! this day is here very soon, so should you fear or glad?