Reflective Learning Journal

The CCP at 100

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It can be argued that China never

been:

More Peaceful

More Secure

More Stable

Richer

More confident

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China reduced its poverty level by 71 percent in 30 years

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China’s Infant mortality rate has fallen from approx. 300 per 1000

in the 1950s to approx. 30 per 1000

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Pollution

Just 1 percent of China’s urban

inhabitants were considered to

breath air that the EU would

consider to be safe.

Pollution causing between

350,000 and 400,000 deaths a

year.

30 percent of Yunnan children

under 14 had led poisoning.

http://aqicn.org/map/

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An official report in 2004

estimated that pollution had cost

just over 3 percent of GDP

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.Researchers at Harvard University last year

said China’s cuts in sulphur-dioxide

emissions in recent years may have been

“one of the most swiftly effective air-

pollution policies ever implemented

anywhere” (Economist March 8 2014).

The plan is for China to increase the

proportion of renewable energy in primary

energy consumption from 7 percent in 2005

to 15 percent in 2020

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In the early 1980s Chen Yun one of the most

influential political figures in the reform era spoke

of corruption as a matter of life and death for the

party.

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“Walder (1994, pp 297-323) and others have noted that party

authority was founded on citizen-dependence upon officials for

satisfaction of material needs and for access to career opportunities.

“This system increased cynicism towards officialdom and a

disrespect for those in authority, who were seen as self-serving

rather than ‘servants of the people’, as the official ideology

claimed”

(Saich 2011 p374)

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A 2008 survey found that 75.5 percent of respondents ranked

corruption and cleaner government as their top concern.

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“…ordinary citizens are more concerned about the everyday

small corruption that makes their

life complicated: the red envelopes

filled with money to get to see the

doctor or get the prescription that

is one’s right, the illegal fees that

are paid to the schools to make

sure that children can get the

education they are promised; and

so on.” (Saich 2011, 377)

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The Slowing Economy

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Territorial Issues

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The Thucydides Trap?

Where a rising power causes fear in

an established power which

escalates toward war.

Thucydides wrote: "What made war

inevitable was the growth of

Athenian power and the fear which

this caused in Sparta.

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Civil Unrest

China spends more on domestic security than on its military

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Article 35 of the Constitution

Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press,

of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

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Organisational Challenges

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January 1 2015 stampede in Shanghai left 36 people dead

While local officials attended a 4,000 Yuan dinner per head feast at

one of Shanghai’s top Sushi restaurants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

worldnews/asia/china/11342038/S

hanghai-officials-gorged-on-413-

a-head-sushi-as-fatal-New-Years-

Eve-stampede-unfolded.html

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The Demographic Challenges

China will soon have 160 men to every 100 women

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Ideological Challenges

Is China a Marxist-Leninist state?

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“For the center . . . to actually

direct the orchestra, it needs to

know who plays violin and

where, who plays a false note

and why.”

- Lenin 1912

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“The Chinese Communist Party is the

successor to and promoter of fine traditional

Chinese culture” Xi 2014

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“We must uphold Marxism, firm up

and further build the ideal of

Communism and a shared ideal of

socialism with Chinese

characteristics, and nurture and

practice core socialist values”,

Xi told the opening of the 19 th

National Party Congress (NPC)

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“Any drifting away from or

betraying Marxism will lead to

the Party's losing its soul and

direction as it moves forward”

- Xi 2017

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Deng Xiaoping Theory

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The Three Represents

1. The Party should represent the advanced

productive forces in society.

2. The Party should represent advanced

modern culture.

3. The Party should represent the interests

of the vast majority of the people.

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Scientific Development Concept

Democracy with Chinese Characteristics

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The Chinese Dream

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What are the biggest problems Xi Jinping faces as we

enter 2018?