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China Could See 'Violent Revolution' If No Political Reform

Sunday, December 30, 2012 23:25

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Citizens in Wukan after taking over the village temporarily late last year from communist officials. A recent open letter from more than 70 scholars said the whole country could see a violent revolution if drastic change isn’t enacted. (Businessweek)

A group of Chinese academics issued a letter saying that the country could see “violent revolution” if the government doesn’t reform, quickly.

The letter had 73 signatories, including scholars such as current and retired legal experts, according to Reuters.

“If reforms to the system urgently needed by Chinese society keep being frustrated and stagnate without progress, then official corruption and dissatisfaction in society will boil up to a crisis point and China will once again miss the opportunity for peaceful reform, and slip into the turbulence and chaos of violent revolution,” they wrote, according to the wire agency.

Protests in China for more human and political rights have ramped up even higher in 2012 under the supressive communist regime; they have included thousands of Tibetans protesting for independence; thousands of villagers protesting corrupt land sales; and mass protests against the expansion of a chemical factory.

The Tibetan issue has been one of the most poignant, with a wave of monks setting fire to themselves, referred to as self-immolation.

There have also been an unprecedented number of citizens openly signing petitions calling for the release of Falun Gong practitioners.

Other faiths, such as Christianity and Islam, are targeted, too.

Also, at the beginning of the year the communist regime cracked down on society because of fear the revolutions in the Middle East would spark massive unrest in China, leading the regime, likes the ones in the Middle East, to be toppled.

And the most recent news is a new law that will force Chinese people, when using the internet, to use their real names instead of pseudonyms.

Now the letter the 73 scholars signed has been circulating on the internet this month, although online references to it in Chinese state media have been removed, reports Reuters.

He Weifang, law professor at Peking University and who signed the letter, said the demands in the letter were actually pretty moderate, but need to be put into place during the exchange of power.

“We have come to that period again when the leadership is changing. People expect continuing advances when it comes to reform of the political system,” he said. “The Chinese people, including intellectuals, have been talking about this for a while, but little has happened. So I think we have the opportunity now to push it again.”

“China’s 100 years of bloody and violent history – especially the painful and tragic lesson of the decade-long Cultural Revolution – show that once we go against the tide of democracy, human rights, rule of law and constitutional government, the people will suffer disaster and social and political stability will be impossible,” the letter said.

Recently a Chinese economist said that the rampant corruption in China would kill the Chinese regime, but not China; he suggested that the regime start punishing Party officials who commit crimes from now on, using the recent 18th National Congress as the start of a new timeline.

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