The Limits of the Party’s Adaptation  

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Bequelin, Nicholas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 10 (Dec. 2009), page 46.
Topik: China; Chinese Communist Party; Global Power

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This year's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has led many commentators to reflect on the widely diverging fate of communist parties in China and the former Soviet bloc. Whereas in Russia and Eastern Europe communism was consigned almost overnight to the "dustbin of history," in China two decades of breakneck economic growth, a policy of openness to the outside world, particularly on business, and continued domestic political control have strengthened the rule of the Chinese Communist Party beyond all expectations. Today, the CCP controls more resources, enjoys greater domestic acquiescence and commands far more international respect than it did in 1989. China's urban citizenry, while still facing sharp limits on basic rights such as expression, information, association or assembly, may enjoy more private freedoms, and legal protections than at any prior point in Chinese history. While not about to take over the world as some sensationalistic commentators would suggest, the People's Republic has indeed turned into a global power. It is even sometimes touted as a challenge to the liberal democratic model. This is a scenario, the British historian Timothy Garton Ash recently admitted, that "we simply did not imagine in 1989."

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