Published on April 16, 2011
I am just back from another trip to Yunnan Province, China where I saw a nation where almost everyone is fed, clothed and housed.
This is an enormous achievement for which the Communist Party should be given more credit than it receives. However, there is a price for this that is becoming too steep. The Communist Party's fear of "chaos", the buzzword that counters the buzzwords "harmonious society", means the party is spending US$75 billion (Bt2.26 trillion) on internal security. Hu Jintao has made it to the top, another huge achievement, but his great break was his vicious administration of Tibet. Hu was responsible for the torture and murder of more Buddhist monks and nuns than anyone else on earth. Than Shwe is an amateur by comparison.
Now the struggle isn't against Buddhists, Muslims and Falungong in particular but against the Internet and the rest of the world. The Communist Party is a dinosaur, the last Leninist-Stalinist party on the planet (North Korea is a kleptocracy) and there's no such thing as a nimble dinosaur. The world will see that dance soon. A letter to your paper from Yingwai Suchaovanich [April 3] writes of China's "tide for coalescence and harmonisation", etc. He couldn't be more wrong. That tide is going out. The 21st century is coming in. The ludicrous venom and hysteria from the Communist Party (on the record and undeletable by Chinese communist computers) when Liu [Xiaobo] won the Nobel Peace Prize is a sign this party is terrified of imploding. Speaking of Nobel Prizes, Yingwai Suchaovanich's letter is so fawning toward the Chinese Communist Party that if there were a Nobel Prize for Lickspittle, it would be his for the taking.
Owen McGowan
Chiang Mai
Source: The Nation
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