Translation Tag: ideology
Liu Jieyi, the former director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, expounds on the 20th Party Congress work report to distill Beijing’s overarching strategy for “reunification” with Taiwan. Liu argues it is important to “put [this strategy] into practice,” which includes suppressing voices in favor of Taiwan independence and what Liu terms “foreign interference schemes,” promoting cultural and educational exchange across the Strait, and refusing to renounce the use force to achieve “reunification.”
This piece summarizes a speech Xi Jinping gave on what he sees as the proper role of journalism when he was the Secretary of the Ningde Prefecture Party Committee in 1989. In the speech, Xi encourages Party organizations at all levels to strengthen their leadership over journalism, since the media can facilitate the Party and socialist cause by “publiciz[ing] achievements confidently” and serving a “supervision function” to expose corruption.
In this 1993 interview with Xi Jinping, then serving as Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, he argues that a leader capable of leading China to modernization and prosperity should be “courageous and knowledgeable,” adhere to “firm beliefs,” be in touch with the “will of the masses,” and hold a “profound understanding of the…policies of the central and provincial party committees.”
This 2017 speech by Chen Quanguo, then-serving as the Xinjiang Party Secretary, was delivered to senior officials in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region just after the completion of the 19th Party Congress, and contains Chen’s distillation of the meeting’s key outcomes and messages.
This is translation of a section of a Q&A series explaining theories from Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, published in the People’s Daily. This section deals with the concept that political security is inseparable from national security, explaining that “political security is directly connected to the life and death of the Party and country”.
Chen Yixin, a high-ranking official at the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and a possible candidate to take the top spot at the commission at the 20th Party Congress, penned a long, and often hagiographic, analysis of Xi Jinping in a July edition of Study Times, a daily newspaper run by the Central Party School.
These formal guidelines, issued in 2014 by the CCP General Office, outline the process organizations must follow when cultivating new applicants to the CCP, as well as the formal steps applicants must go through on their path to full Party membership.
On a semi-regular basis, the CCP Politburo holds a “study session,” led by an outside academic or government expert on a selected topic. Such sessions are important signals as to what issues the senior leadership find important. The June 18, 2022 session focused on anti-corruption measures within the Party and was led by an official at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
Yuan Peng, the president of one of China’s leading international relations think tanks and an influential advisor to the CCP on foreign policy, outlines the importance of Xi Jinping’s vision of “national security” for navigating the “new great struggle” of global uncertainty.
This article from the Vice President of the School of International Relations and Public Policy at Fudan University explores the shifting politics and values of China’s middle class, as well as its impact on overall society.