Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A995-W645

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Release Date: March 8, 2017

发布日:2017年3月8日

 

Topic: Wei Jingsheng 's Evaluation of Xi Jinping's 5 Years Leadership in China (Voice of America "Issues and Opinions" Program)

标题:魏京生看习政权五年(美国之音“时事大家谈”节目)

   

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Editor's note: the following is the VOA introduction of its "Issues and Opinions" talk show on March 8, 2017, featuring its invited guest: Wei Jingsheng.

 

 

Voice of America "Issues and Opinions" Program: Wei Jingsheng 's Evaluation of Xi Jinping's 5 Years Leadership in China

Last updated: March 9, 2017 01:06

-- Hosted by Xu Bo of VOA

 

 

Washington -

The annual China "Two Conferences" are being held in Beijing now.  This year's National People's Congress and The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference mark the end of the last 5 years of rule by Xi Jinping, as well as determining the next term of the Xi administration.  They are also a warm up for the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.  The media inside China and abroad and many analysts are highly concerned about these "Two Conferences".  The Western analysis gave a report card for the first term of Xi Jinping's governing which highlights a) China's reality that must be reformed because its "economy is huge but a serious waste"; b) the bold oath Xi Jinping has on the international stage does not match his performance in the past 5 years; and c) the combination of power and wealth in China is accelerating the disparity between rich and poor in China.  So, has the Chinese political ecology and social environment progressed or retreated in the past five years under Xi's ruling?  From where comes the greatest risk to Xi's regime?  Where is the "legal society" Xi promised to establish?

 

Wei Jingsheng said that the words "Xi Core Leadership" have been mentioned repeatedly by the officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which shows that not all voices within the Communist leadership are convinced; thus the need to repeat this phrase of "Xi Core Leadership."  After Mao Zedong's era, the word "leader" was rarely mentioned because this word in Chinese is associated with dictators.  But now this word has surfaced again, which indicates that Xi Jinping may want to engage a dictatorship, and everyone is forced to call him a leader at his request.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that there is a phrase which goes "where your butt sits decides where your brain is."  Xi Jinping once said that he was going to learn from Chiang Ching-kuo (of Republic of China) by opening freedom of speech and lifting the ban on forming political parties, but the results after he took office have departed farther and farther from that claim.  Wei Jingsheng said that as the Communist system is different from democratic systems, it needs dictator leadership to gather the people.  Therefore under such a system there will not be too much difference from Mao Zedong's era.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that after Xi Jinping came to power he was brown-nosed by many and thus lost his mind and changed.  When a person sits on the seat of a dictator, he will unknowingly become a dictator.  Mao Zedong was an example.  Xi Jinping also seems to have become corrupted due to the power in his hands.  This system decides everything, while the "Two Conferences" are just like pretty vases and rubber stamps, which give no restriction on Xi's function but instead sing praises to him.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that in the early years after the Communist Party was founded, there were many young people joining the party in order to pursue democracy and freedom.  But the Communist Party has become an autocratic dictatorial regime, which has made many old communist members think it is worse than KMT.  After Xi Jinping came to power, he has not only offended the Chinese people and increased the gap between rich and poor, but also made more enemies within the Communist party and made a mess diplomatically -- these are the reasons for political instability in China.

 

Wei Jingsheng said: "Xi wants to concentrate power to do big things.  But we have to see what are the big things he is doing.  Now Xi Jinping tightens speech more and more.  Not to mention not lifting the forbidden formation of political parties, he even arrested many people when he treated rights defending lawyers as forbidden organizations.  This trend proves that he is not like Chiang Ching-kuo at all.  Then what will be the big things he is going to do?  He will become more dictatorial and more authoritarian, so people will live even worse.  This will only lead to the collapse of the Communist regime.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that the so-called "anti-corruption" of Xi Jinping is just to concentrate his personal power.  He did not arrest the well-known corrupt officials, but instead arrested his political opponents and put the officials who were disobedient to him in prison.  The Chinese people have observed these actions already and are disappointed with his "anti-corruption".

 

Wei Jingsheng said that the increasing tightening of freedom of speech under Xi Jinping is about to surpass what it was during the Cultural Revolution.  Xi Jinping frequently blocks people using their own created media, and the Chinese people can not say anything.  In the ideology of the Communist Party, "rule of law" is regarded as a weapon against its enemies, which is the essence of the law according to the Communist regime.  This is what everyone should recognize.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that in a healthy society that follows a rule of law the people have supervision over the government, making it not easy for officials to be corruptive.  But in China, the people are reprimanded when they report or petition against officials' wrongdoings.  The rule of law has become a tool for Xi Jinping to purge the dissidents who disagree with him.  Xi Jinping claimed to "rule the country by law", but the Communist Party itself does not have to comply with the law, such as not giving the people freedom of speech which is guaranteed by Chinese law.  The law is only a weapon against the people by the Chinese Communist regime.

 

Wei Jingsheng said that Xi Jinping has been keeping "turning left" since he came to power, while the rule of law in China has simply retreated to the level during the Cultural Revolution period.  In the past, when Deng Xiaoping "turned right while signaling a turn to the left", China still could be maintained during its economic improvement.  But Xi Jinping wants to resume the Mao era by repression, which will for sure result in the eventual collapse of the Communist regime.  Xi Jinping may think that he is stronger than Mao Zedong, but in the present day, it is totally impossible for him to fool the Chinese by using Marxism-Leninism.

 

For more exciting content, please watch the full version of the video of VOA "Issues and Opinions" program on March 8, 2017, at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9_naPUl_E&feature=youtu.be

 

"Issues and Opinions" is a free forum.  What the guests and the audience express are their own personal points of view, which do not represent the Voice of America.

 

 

Original link of this report:

http://www.voachinese.com/a/VOAWeishi-IssuesandOpinions-2017308-Wei-Jingsheng-on-Xi-Jinpings-performance-in-the-past-5-years/3755235.html

 

YouTube link of this video by VOA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGk94yjMi9w

or:

https://youtu.be/HuEP6zZgPbs

and:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/WeiJSonXiJPperformance5years170308VOAtalkshow.mp4

 

The audio of this video is available at:

http://www.voachinese.com/pp/3755228/ppt0.html

or:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/WeiJSonXiJPperformance5years170308VOAtalkshow.mp3

 

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A995-W645

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号:A995-W645

 

Release Date: March 8, 2017

发布日:2017年3月8日

 

Topic: Wei Jingsheng 's Evaluation of Xi Jinping's 5 Years Leadership in China (Voice of America "Issues and Opinions" Program)

标题:魏京生看习政权五年(美国之音“时事大家谈”节目)

   

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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(编者按:以下为2017年3月8日美国之音“时事大家谈”主持人许波采访魏京生先生的节目介绍。)

 

时事大家谈:魏京生看习政权五年

最后更新: 2017年3月9日 01:06

* 许波

 

华盛顿 - 

一年一度的中国"两会"正在北京召开。本次全国人大和全国政协会议是习近平执政五年的收官之作,也是确定习政府下届任期和中共十九大的铺垫之举,海内外媒体和分析人士高度关注。西方分析称,习近平第一个任期的"成绩单"凸显出中国"体量庞大但浪费严重的经济"必须改革的现实; 习近平在国际舞台上的大胆誓言与五年来的业绩不相符合;中国特色的权钱结合导致的贫富分化正在加速前行。那么,习近平当政五年来,中国的政治生态和社会环境究竟是进还是退?习政权面临的最大风险来自何处?习近平誓言建立的"法制社会"究竟在哪里?

 

魏京生说,"习核心"三个字一再被中共官员提起,说明了中共对习近平掌握权力可能出现不服气的声音,所以才需要反复强调"习核心"。毛泽东时代过去后,"领袖"两个字因为容易让人联想到独裁者,已经很少被人提起。现在这两个字再度浮出水面,说明习近平可能想搞独裁,而众人在他要求下,被迫称他为领袖。

 

魏京生说,正所谓"屁股决定脑袋",习近平曾表示要像蒋经国一样开放言论自由和党禁,结果上台后越走越远。魏京生说,共产党这个体制与民主体制不同,共产党就是需要一个独裁者领导才可能聚集民心,在这样的体制下不会和毛时代有多大区别。

 

魏京生说,习近平上台后受到众人吹捧,头脑发昏人都变了。一个人坐上了独裁者的位子,不知不觉也会变成独裁者,毛泽东就是一例,习近平看来也将因为权力到手而腐化。体制决定了一切,中国的两会如同花瓶和橡皮图章,除了歌颂习近平之外,没有任何限制他的功能。

 

魏京生说,当年许多青年为了追求民主自由加入共产党,但共产党却变成专制独裁的政权,让许多老共产党员认为不如国民党。习近平上台后不但得罪老百姓、加大贫富差距,在党内也树立更多敌人,外交更是一塌糊涂,这些都是造成政局不稳定的原因。

 

魏京生说:"集中权力做大事,要看做的是什么事。习近平现在言论收得越来越紧,不要说开放党禁了,律师搞维权还被当成组织一样一下抓很多人,他这个趋势根本不像蒋经国。那么他要办什么大事呢?就是更加独裁、更加专制,让老百姓过得更不好。这样做只会走向崩溃。"

 

魏京生说,习近平所谓的"反腐败",只是为了集中他个人的权力。他放着众所周知的腐败官员不抓,尽抓一些自己政治上的对手,让不听话的官员进监狱,这些老百姓早已看出来了,对他的"反腐败"感到失望。

 

魏京生说,习近平对言论自由的日益收紧已经快超过文革时期,他动辄封杀老百姓使用的自媒体,人民什么也不能说。在共产党的意识形态里,"法治"被当作对付敌人的武器,大家应该认清这就是共产党的法律的本质。

 

魏京生说,健康的法治社会由全民监督政府,官员想腐败都不容易。但在中国,老百姓检举或上访还会被斥回,法治俨然成为习近平整肃异己的工具。习近平号称要"依法治国",但共产党自己却可以不遵守法律,好比不给予人民法律保障的言论自由。法律只是共产党握在手中对付他人的武器罢了。

 

魏京生说,习近平上台后不断"左转",法治上简直倒退到文革时期。过去邓小平"打左灯往右转",在经济好转的情况下国家还能维持下去。习近平却想通过镇压来恢复毛时代,政权最后必然要崩溃。习近平可能认为自己比毛泽东还厉害,但现在的时代根本不可能让他用马列主义来忽悠老百姓。

 

更多精彩内容,请收看2017年3月8日的《时事大家谈》完整版视频:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9_naPUl_E&feature=youtu.be

 

时事大家谈是一个自由论坛。嘉宾和观众听众发表的都是个人观点,并不代表美国之音。

 

 

本次节目的原始链接:

http://www.voachinese.com/a/VOAWeishi-IssuesandOpinions-2017308-Wei-Jingsheng-on-Xi-Jinpings-performance-in-the-past-5-years/3755235.html

 

YouTube链接:时事大家谈:魏京生看习政权五年

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGk94yjMi9w

或:

https://youtu.be/HuEP6zZgPbs

及:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/WeiJSonXiJPperformance5years170308VOAtalkshow.mp4

 

以及音频:

http://www.voachinese.com/pp/3755228/ppt0.html

或:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/WeiJSonXiJPperformance5years170308VOAtalkshow.mp3

 

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