Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation

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• 2013

• seven political “perils,” including constitutionalism, civil society, “nihilistic” views of history, “universal values,” and the promotion of “the West’s view of media.”

• resistance to “infiltration” by outside ideas, renew their commitment to work “in the ideological sphere,”

• The ideological foundation of our united struggle is unceasingly solidifying

• The outlook for our nation’s economic development continues to be favorable, and the people’s faith in China’s economic prospects has risen

• new measures

• expanding and strengthening positive propaganda

• promoting unification of thought

• “constitutional dream” to distort the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, saying things like “constitutional democracy is the only way out” and “China should catch up with the rest of the world’s trend toward constitutional governance.”

• An attempt to undermine the current leadership and the socialism

• The people who espouse universal values] believe Western freedom, democracy, and human rights are universal and eternal

• civil society and Western-style theories of governance, they claim that building a civil society in China is a precondition for the protection of individual rights and forms the basis for the realization of constitutional democracy

• Neoliberalism advocates unrestrained economic liberalization, complete privatization, and total marketization and it opposes any kind of interference or regulation by the state

• “market omnipotence theory.” They claim our country’s macroeconomic control is strangling the market’s efficiency and vitality and they oppose public ownership

• The ultimate goal of advocating the West’s view of the media is to hawk the principle of abstract and absolute freedom of press

• Rejecting the revolution; claiming that the revolution led by the Chinese Communist Party resulted only in destruction; denying the historical inevitability in China’s choice of the Socialist road, calling it the wrong path, and the Party’s and new China’s history a “continuous series of mistakes”; rejecting the accepted conclusions on historical events and figures, disparaging our Revolutionary precursors, and vilifying the Party’s leaders

• They bang on about how we should use Western standards to achieve so-called “thorough reform.

• If we allow any of these ideas to spread, they will disturb people’s existing consensus on important issues like which flag to raise, which road to take, which goals to pursue, etc., and this will disrupt our nation’s stable progress on reform and development.

• have organized petition-signings to vocalize requests for political reforms, improvement of human rights, release of “political prisoners,” “reversing the verdict on ‘6/4’[the Tiananmen Massacre],” and other such political demands

• Party members and governments of all levels must become fully aware that struggles in the ideological sphere are perpetual, complex, and excruciating; you must strengthen awareness of the current political situation