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发布日：2016年4月23日
Topic:
VOA Connection: Wei Jingsheng Comments on Xi Jinping's Recent Demands of the
Chinese Communist Officials (Voice of America)
标题：VOA连线：魏京生谈习近平最近对领导干部的要求(美国之音)
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VOA
Connect: Wei Jingsheng Comments on Xi Jinping's Recent Demands of the Chinese
Communist Officials
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Voice of America
April
20, 2016
On
two continuous days this week, China's leader Xi Jinping announced two new
demands to Chinese Communist Party's officials. On Monday, he said that stricter regulations need to be
established for those officials' children and relatives who are doing
business. It was interpreted as the
clearest statement after the "Panama Papers". Not long after, today, he said
that officials need to get online regularly in order to "understand the
people's opinions and accept criticisms". How should we interpret the new statements made by Xi Jinping? By telephone, we invite Wei Jingsheng,
the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, to share his views.
Greetings,
Mr. Wei! Let us first look at what
Xi Jinping said in the cyber security meeting today. He said, when the Chinese people are using the Internet
their opinions are also going to be on the Internet, so the officials need to
learn to use the Internet to get close to the people and understand their
opinions. Does Xi Jinping really
care about the opinions of the people?
What do you think?
Wei
Jingsheng: Actually, we should look at the main theme of his speech, which is
the later part -- reinforce Internet monitoring, guide the public opinion, and
strike back "wrongful speeches", etc. -- this is the true theme of
his speech. The beginning part was
meant to trick the general public and attempt to convince the public that the
Chinese government really cares about them, which is just the old trick from
Mao Zedong. Therefore, the main
idea of Xi Jinping is still to reinforce the censorship and guide the public
opinion in China. This section is
the only real part.
VOA
host: One day ago on Monday, when hosting "the comprehensive deepening
reform leading team" meeting of the Chinese government, Xi Jinping
specially emphasized the need of rules for those government officials' families
who are doing business; this was also his first statement after the exposure of
the "Panama Papers". In
the "Panama Papers", Xi Jinping's brother-in-law was listed among
others. If Xi Jinping is calling
to set up rules for government officials, will he follow those rules
himself?
Wei
Jingsheng: I think he thought about it for a few days. After "the Panama Papers"
were exposed, they held the Politburo Standing Committee meeting and thought
about solutions to deal with it for several days. Their response to the Chinese people is that they are now
going to regulate. Because there
were no previous regulations, things went bad. This is the information we obtained from the Internet. On the Internet inside China, many
review articles about the "Panama Papers" claimed that they have not
found that all these income activities were illegal. But they avoided a very important issue: the fact that transferring
money to these companies is sort of tax evasion and a crime in itself. They avoided to talk about this
issue. Now they say, we have not
previously set the rules so there were problems, but there will be harsh rules
about this in the future. This
statement is just avoiding all the important issues and then saying they will
regulate in the future.
VOA
host: So in addition to the proposed regulations, there are comments that if Xi
Jinping wants to target the family members of the officials, he is most likely
to target Jiang Zemin's two sons.
What is your view Mr. Wei?
If Xi Jinping is going to start on family members of the officials,
where might he start?
Wei
Jingsheng: I think a very important significance of the "Panama
Papers" is to illustrate the Chinese Communist Party's anti-corruption
campaign is only a selective measure.
Xi
Jinping's current conduct avoids the core issues. A very important issue that he avoided is that
anti-corruption is actually selective.
He may be taking a step further in combating his opponents within the
party. But I think that Jiang
Zemin was not his main goal, as Jiang Zemin has retired for many years and is
without real power and will not interfere with him. Xi would choose people who are currently in politics who pose
a threat to him and his clique.
VOA
host: Who might they be?
Wei
Jingsheng: I think there are discordant voices within the current
Politburo. Those families and
subordinates may become his targets.
VOA
host: We have to wait and see.
Thank you very much for taking your time to accept VOA's interview
today, Mr. Wei Jingsheng.
Original
link of this interview:
http://www.voachinese.com/content/voa-connect-with-wei-jingsheng-20160419/3292385.html
(The
Wei Jingsheng Foundation is grateful to Yi Shi for his translation of this
report and his other contributions to this Foundation.)
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Overseas
Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A932-O261
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A932-O261
Release
Date: April 23, 2016
发布日：2016年4月23日
Topic:
VOA Connection: Wei Jingsheng Comments on Xi Jinping's Recent Demands of the
Chinese Communist Officials (Voice of America)
标题：VOA连线：魏京生谈习近平最近对领导干部的要求(美国之音)
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VOA连线：魏京生谈习近平最近对领导干部的要求
-- 美国之音
2016.04.20
00:36
这个星期连续两天，中国领导人习近平对中共领导干部发出两大要求，星期一，他说要加强规范干部子女家属的经商行为，被认为是巴拿马文件后习近平最明确的一次表态。紧接着，今天他又说，领导干部要经常上网看看，"了解民意，接受批评"。如何解读习近平的最新说法？我们下面通过电话连线，请中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生来谈谈他的看法。
魏先生您好，先来看看今天习近平在网络安全工作会上是怎么说的。他说，老百姓上了网，民意也就上了网，所以领导干部要学会通过网络走群众路线，了解民意。习近平真的要广开民意了吗？您怎么看？
魏京生：实际上，这要看他整篇讲话的核心部分，后边的一部分，就是加强网络监管，要引导舆论，要反击什么错误的言论等等，这部分才是他讲话的真正核心内容。前面那一部分都在忽悠老百姓，说你看我们领导干部要关心你们了，要关心群众，这是毛泽东的老手法了。所以说，核心还是要加强监管，还是要引导舆论。这部分内容才是真正的内容。
主持人：前一天，星期一的时候，习近平在主持全面深化改革小组会议的时候，特别强调要规范干部家属的经商行为，这也是巴拿马文件曝光之后他第一次表态。巴拿马文件里，习近平的姐夫就被列名其中，如果习近平要规范干部，习近平能做到以身作则吗？
魏京生：我想他这个讲话是想了好几天以后，就是巴拿马文件曝光，他们开政治局常委会，想了几天之后的应对措施。就是跟老百姓说，你看我们现在要规范了，以前因为没有规范，所以怎么怎么样。这也是从很多网上获得的信息。因为很多中文网网络文章在评论巴拿马文件时都说，我们没有查到他这个收入是非法的。但是他们回避了一个很重要的问题就是，你把钱转移到这些公司，实际上是一种逃税行为，本身就是犯罪。他们回避了这个问题。但是现在呢，他们说，我们以前没有规范，所以他们经商有不规范，我们以后规范。这是把重要的问题都躲避了，然后说以后要规范。
主持人：那么这次除了提出要规范之外，魏先生，有评论认为，习近平如果要向干部家属下手，最有可能就是锁定江泽民的两个儿子，您的看法？习近平如果要向干部家属下手，他可能从哪里着手呢？
魏京生：我想这个巴拿马文件有一个很重要的意义，就是说明中共这个反腐行为实际上是一种选择性行为。
习近平现在这种做法，实际上是回避了核心问题以后的做法。而且他回避了一个很重要的问题，反腐实际上是一种选择性的反腐。他可能会进一步打击他在党内的对手。但是我认为江泽民不是他的主要目标。江泽民已经退休多年了，而且没有什么实际的权力，不会干扰到他。他会选择那些在政界对他和他的集团有威胁的对象。
主持人：那您觉得有可能是哪些对象呢？
魏京生：我想现任政治局里头有不和谐的声音吧。那些人的家属和下级可能会成为被选择的对象。
主持人：我们也拭目以待，持续观察。非常感谢魏京生先生今天抽空接受美国之音的访问。
采访的原始链接：
http://www.voachinese.com/content/voa-connect-with-wei-jingsheng-20160419/3292385.html
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