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News and Article: A1333-W948
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1333-W948
Release Date: November
8, 2020
发布日：2020年11月8日
Topic: Wei Jingsheng
Lectured "A Perspective of the Direction of China and the USA” at the Potomac Cultural Salon
标题：魏京生在波托马克文化沙龙主讲“透视中国、美国走向何方？”
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Wei Jingsheng Lectured
"A Perspective of the Direction of China and the USA”
at the Potomac Cultural Salon
On November 7, 2020, at
the invitation of the Potomac Culture Salon, Mr. Wei Jingsheng gave a lecture
on "A Perspective of the Direction of China and the USA.” The main theme was about the 5th Plenary
Session of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the
Presidential election in the USA, China & the USA after the US Presidential
election, and the China-USA relations, on which Mr. Wei delivered his
interpretations.
Regarding the Fifth
Plenary Session of the CCP’s 19th Congress, Wei
Jingsheng thinks that there was only one sentence with some substantive
content, which was about peaceful reunification with Taiwan. This cooled the recent CCP’s
clamor for a military reunification of Taiwan.
Regarding the issue of the so-called successor to Xi Jinping, Wei
Jingsheng pointed out that it was not an issue, although some people hope to
change the current "one person’s
dictatorship" into "one party’s
dictatorship." Regarding the
current situation in China, Wei Jingsheng feels not optimistic. Regarding the current control of the
coronavirus spreading in China, Wei Jingsheng thinks that the CCP’s words have never been credible.
Wei Jingsheng thinks
that the biggest challenge in the four-year term after the election of the US
president is from China. He pointed out
that many of Joe Biden's funds come from big businesses, and they hope that
Biden can go back to what Biden and his main aides talked about in the past of
returning to an appeasement policy. But
in fact, Biden does not have that much power to change everything. If he wants to change his China policy, he
will not even get the support of those who support democracy and freedom within
the Democratic Party. But this monetary
influence also reflects the shortcomings of the American system, which have
been in place for more than two hundred years without a correction: the power
of big capital and money far exceeds the power of voters, which may be its
fatal flaw. Yet this influence is not
the same as the CCP’s dictatorship.
Wei Jingsheng criticized
President Trump's early practices of offending allies around the world, but
pointed out that his foreign policy has improved a lot in the past year or two,
especially with Secretary of State Pompeo's efforts. Regarding the withdrawal of the United States
from some international organizations, Wei Jingsheng thinks it is understandable,
because the CCP has made full use of some organizations, and these
organizations have exposed many problems themselves. We must consider what role these
international organizations are really playing.
Wei Jingsheng also analyzed and discussed the relationship between the
United States and Europe and Asia, with an emphasis on the relationship between
the United States and Taiwan, the Hong Kong issue, Xinjiang Uyghur, and
mainland China, etc.
Wei Jingsheng also
talked about the problems of the American media, especially since he himself
has been suppressed by big businesses for more than two decades after opposing
American capitalists going to China to earn money without a conscience, to the
degree that articles he was invited to write were rejected by the top
management. How to protect true freedom
of speech from the monopoly and manipulation of big business is something that
both China and the United States need to consider. Because of different opinions in the general
election, Wei Jingsheng suggested that every Chinese should learn from
Americans and be more tolerant of different opinions and election choices. After all, the United States is still a
democratic system, and we should further promote democratic progress when
possible. Wei Jingsheng thinks that the
United States has not become more conservative, but is only becoming sober
about the CCP and started to make the right decisions.
Finally, Wei Jingsheng
called on the Chinese people to improve their ability to recognize issues and
promote freedom and democracy in China within their capacity. He gave a summary of the eventful 2020 and
made a perspective for China in 2021.
The full content of this
lecture can be viewed on the Potomac Culture Salon YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzeLgM-7VM
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The following is an
introduction of Wei Jingsheng’s lecture by the Potomac
Cultural Salon:
"A Perspective on
the Direction of China and the USA”
The Fifth Plenary
Session of the 19th Congress of the CCP is over. What did they discuss? Little is known to the outside world.
The dust will have
settled in the US presidential election.
What will happen to domestic and foreign policies?
In the next four years,
will the development of US-China relations pick up or continue to decouple?
What measures will the US and Chinese leaders take?
The Potomac Cultural
Salon is honored to invite Mr. Wei Jingsheng, a famous Chinese democracy
activist, to interpret China, the United States and the relationship between
the United States and China.
Wei Jingsheng is a
famous Chinese anti-communist, democrat and social activist. He once published a big-character poster
"The Fifth Modernization" on the Democracy Wall in Xidan, Beijing, to
promote democracy. He was later
imprisoned for “counter-revolutionary”
actions and “conspiracy
to subvert the government”, and was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize many times in prison.
After being released from prison, he went into exile in the United
States. Currently, he is the chairman of
the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and the chairman of the Wei Jingsheng
Foundation.
In 1993, Wei Jingsheng
shared the International Activist Award of the Greitsman Foundation of the
United States with former South African President Nelson Mandela. He received the Olof Palme Memorial Prize
from Sweden in 1994, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996,
the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1996
and the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1998.
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Wei Jingsheng Foundation
News and Article: A1333-W948
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1333-W948
Release Date: November
8, 2020
发布日：2020年11月8日
Topic: Wei Jingsheng
Lectured "A Perspective of the Direction of China and the USA” at the Potomac Cultural Salon
标题：魏京生在波托马克文化沙龙主讲“透视中国、美国走向何方？”
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魏京生在波托马克文化沙龙主讲“透视中国、美国走向何方？”
2020年11月7日，受波托马克文化沙龙的邀请，魏京生先生主讲“透视中国、美国走向何方？”就中共刚召开的19大5中全会，美国大选，及大选之后的中国、美国和美中关系等进行了解读。
就中共刚召开的19大5中全会，魏京生认为其中只有一句话有些实质性的内容，就是有关要与台湾和平统一，这给前一段时间叫嚣武统台湾降了温。关于所谓继承人的问题，魏京生指出已经不是问题，尽管一些人希望能改“一人独尊”为“一党独尊”。就中国目前的形势，魏京生认为并不乐观。有关现在冠状病毒的控制，魏京生认为中共的话从来都不可信。
就美国大选选出总统后的四年任期里的最大挑战，魏京生认为是来自中国。他指出拜登的许多资金来自大企业，他们希望拜登能回到拜登及其主要助手说过的要回到过去绥靖政策的说法。但其实拜登并没那么大的权力来改变一切。他若要改变对华政策，甚至得不到民主党内支持民主自由人士的支持。但这也反映出美国制度的缺陷。两百多年来如此，却一直得不到纠正：大资本金钱的力量，远远超过了选民的力量，可能是它的致命缺陷。但这与中共的独裁专制不可同日而语。
魏京生批评了川普总统早期在全世界得罪盟友的做法，但指出这一年多来其外交政策有了许多改善，尤其是彭培奥国务卿做了许多的努力。就有关美国退出一些国际组织，魏京生认为是可以理解的，因为中共充分利用了一些组织，这些组织暴露了许多问题，要考虑它们到底起了什么作用。魏京生也就美国与欧亚的关系，尤其是美台关系，香港问题、新疆维吾尔及中国大陆等情况进行了分析与讨论。
魏京生还谈到美国媒体的问题，尤其是他在反对美国资本家去中国挣昧心钱后这二十多年来受大资本的打压，连约好的稿子都不能发表的情况。如何能保障真正的言论自由，不受大资本的垄断与操控，这是中美都需要考虑的。致于因为大选的意见不同，而闹到你死我活，魏京生建议大家学习美国人，要大度一些，毕竟美国还是一个民主制度，在可能的情况下进一步推动民主进步。魏京生认为美国并没有走向保守，而是对中共走向清醒，并做出正确的决定。
最后，魏京生号召中国人民在力所能及的范围内，提高辨别能力，推动中国的自由与民主。他对多事之秋的2020年做了个小结，并对2021年的中国做出展望。
讲座的完全内容可在波托马克文化沙龙YouTube频道上观看：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzeLgM-7VM
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以下为波托马克文化沙龙的相关介绍：
“透视中国、美国走向何方？”
中共19届五中全会结束了，他们讨论了什么？外界知之甚少。
美国总统选举尘埃落定。内政外交政策会有什么变化？
未来四年，美中关系发展是回暖还是继续脱钩？美中领导人会采取何种举措？
波托马克文化沙龙荣幸地邀请到中国著名民主活动家魏京生先生，为我们解读中国、美国和美中关系。
魏京生中国著名反共产主义者、民主主义者和社会活动家。曾在北京西单民主墙发表大字报——《第五个现代化》宣扬民主主义。后以反革命罪与阴谋颠覆政府罪被入狱，并在狱中多次获得诺贝尔和平奖提名。出狱后流亡美国。现任中国民主运动海外联席会议主席以及魏京生基金会主席。
1993年，与南非前总统纳尔逊•曼德拉分享美国格莱斯曼基金基金会国际活动家奖；1994年获瑞典奥洛夫•帕尔梅纪念奖；1994年获美国罗伯特•甘迺迪人权奖；1996年获欧洲议会萨哈罗夫思想自由奖；1998年获美国国家民主基金会民主奖。
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