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China’s amazing 60 years of communism
As the red color of proud, strength and ideology smartly marches,
The future will decide whether it will be a color of happiness or blood of masses
In its ongoing zealous effort to display the international community its accomplishments through the use of the state- controlled media, China celebrated its 60 years of independence under communist guidance on 1st October 2009 with great pomp and show .
As the goose stepping soldiers smartly marched along with students waving placards with ‘Listen to the Party’s Orders,’ ‘Socialism is Good,’ printed on it, Beijing flaunted its ‘progress and development and exhibited its modern armaments power.
In the presence of around 30,000 carefully selected guests and keen global eyes, party head and state chief Hu Jintao declared that communism had salvaged China.
Lauding the success of communist ideology in China, Hu Jintao said, "The 60 years of new China have proved that only socialism can save China.”
Further he said, "Today, a socialist China geared towards modernization, the world and the future towers majestically in the East."
Highlighting his vision, Hu insisted the nation towards "greater unity" to build a "rich, strong and democratic socialist country."
Elaborating o the event, Avinash Godbole, an Indian research scholar writes, “A visit to the website of the China Daily shows the theme that the Chinese state wishes to project. The banner on the website announcing the anniversary shows a high speed train and white pigeons flying around areas of green. The backdrop to this canvas of course remains red. The message is loud and clear and yet very simple; the People’s Republic wants to be known as a peacefully developing nation state under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party.”
However in the backdrop of this huge extravagance lies social unrest and lack of unity which has been witnessed by the China with recent clashes flaring up in the ethnic minority provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang.
The recent past have witnessed more than 100,000 violent incidents in China, where citizens had rioted over land abuses, administration injustices and aggravation with the never ending cavernous gap between the haves and have-nots.
The year 2008 saw the deadly uprising in Tibet followed by brutal clashes in Xinjiang in 2009. According to analyst, such incidents had left Chinese communist leaders nervous and uncertain if they will be able to control ethnic and social tensions in the future.
"Our leaders are worried that separatist forces are all becoming proactive and linking forces together," said Gao Heng, research fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The visit of Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, to Taiwan, and Xinjiang’s pro- independence campaigner Rebiya Kadeer’s planned trip to the island have given rise to some worrisome scenarios about communist China’s encirclement by "splittist elements," Gao said.
In a bid to prevent reoccurrence of such incident in future, the Chinese leaders vowed to "effectively prevent and resolutely crack down on ethnicity-related separatist activities”, during the communist party’s annual meet.
However, the document released after the meeting also admitted that the party’s standing as the leading political force of the country was severely endangered by ethnic tensions and rampant corruption, among others.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the plenum communiqué urged party members to "have a sense of urgency about the future, and to think of (possible) dangers in times of prosperity." Further it added, "We must be brave in reform, courageous in innovation; we will never become fossilized, and we will never be stagnant."
To conclude with lines of Peter Ford, a staff writer of one of the leading news blog, “ If there was one message the Chinese authorities wanted to send with Thursday’s military march-past and pageant in Tiananmen Square, it was one of change. Certainly the modern weaponry, the floats celebrating China’s achievements, and President Hu Jintao’s speech about a ‘new era of progress and development’ projected that image. But the grandiose event also reflected what has not changed in China.”
The future will decide whether it will be a color of happiness or blood of masses
In its ongoing zealous effort to display the international community its accomplishments through the use of the state- controlled media, China celebrated its 60 years of independence under communist guidance on 1st October 2009 with great pomp and show .
As the goose stepping soldiers smartly marched along with students waving placards with ‘Listen to the Party’s Orders,’ ‘Socialism is Good,’ printed on it, Beijing flaunted its ‘progress and development and exhibited its modern armaments power.
In the presence of around 30,000 carefully selected guests and keen global eyes, party head and state chief Hu Jintao declared that communism had salvaged China.
Lauding the success of communist ideology in China, Hu Jintao said, "The 60 years of new China have proved that only socialism can save China.”
Further he said, "Today, a socialist China geared towards modernization, the world and the future towers majestically in the East."
Highlighting his vision, Hu insisted the nation towards "greater unity" to build a "rich, strong and democratic socialist country."
Elaborating o the event, Avinash Godbole, an Indian research scholar writes, “A visit to the website of the China Daily shows the theme that the Chinese state wishes to project. The banner on the website announcing the anniversary shows a high speed train and white pigeons flying around areas of green. The backdrop to this canvas of course remains red. The message is loud and clear and yet very simple; the People’s Republic wants to be known as a peacefully developing nation state under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party.”
However in the backdrop of this huge extravagance lies social unrest and lack of unity which has been witnessed by the China with recent clashes flaring up in the ethnic minority provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang.
The recent past have witnessed more than 100,000 violent incidents in China, where citizens had rioted over land abuses, administration injustices and aggravation with the never ending cavernous gap between the haves and have-nots.
The year 2008 saw the deadly uprising in Tibet followed by brutal clashes in Xinjiang in 2009. According to analyst, such incidents had left Chinese communist leaders nervous and uncertain if they will be able to control ethnic and social tensions in the future.
"Our leaders are worried that separatist forces are all becoming proactive and linking forces together," said Gao Heng, research fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The visit of Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, to Taiwan, and Xinjiang’s pro- independence campaigner Rebiya Kadeer’s planned trip to the island have given rise to some worrisome scenarios about communist China’s encirclement by "splittist elements," Gao said.
In a bid to prevent reoccurrence of such incident in future, the Chinese leaders vowed to "effectively prevent and resolutely crack down on ethnicity-related separatist activities”, during the communist party’s annual meet.
However, the document released after the meeting also admitted that the party’s standing as the leading political force of the country was severely endangered by ethnic tensions and rampant corruption, among others.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the plenum communiqué urged party members to "have a sense of urgency about the future, and to think of (possible) dangers in times of prosperity." Further it added, "We must be brave in reform, courageous in innovation; we will never become fossilized, and we will never be stagnant."
To conclude with lines of Peter Ford, a staff writer of one of the leading news blog, “ If there was one message the Chinese authorities wanted to send with Thursday’s military march-past and pageant in Tiananmen Square, it was one of change. Certainly the modern weaponry, the floats celebrating China’s achievements, and President Hu Jintao’s speech about a ‘new era of progress and development’ projected that image. But the grandiose event also reflected what has not changed in China.”
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