The Media of late has been full of Doom and Gloom, especially in regards to the situation in the Middle East, nuclear weapon development in Iran and the world wide Muslim demonstrations and riots over the Muhammad Cartoons.
However, this morning I woke up early to read the article below that appeared in the TIA (The Intellectual Activist) which when linked to other articles that have appeared recently in the Media point to nothing less than the beginning of the collapse of Communism in the world's most populous country -- China.
This is wonderful news to say the least, because for one thing a democratic China will tilt to the West in matters of foreign policy and the addition of over one billion Chinese in an active anti-Islamist alliance sinks any hope of an establishment of a world Islamofascist state. It also brings to mind the Grand Alliance of World War II in which China played a key role in the defeat of Japanese fascism.
Why has this evolution to liberty come about in China?
There are many and complex reasons that date back to the 1970s when Richard Nixon played "The China Card" and the opening up of normal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic and the beginning of trade with the USA and the West. The desire of the Communist leadership to make China the dominate country in the world which could only happen if China modernized its economy and this could only happen if a technological and business elite were trained. The problem with allowing vast numbers of Chinese to become Western educated technological and business educated is that such individuals do not limit their thinking to those subjects -- They tend to start reading and thinking about political science and realize that for China to join the first ranks of advanced countries it must allow the people to be free.
But the key factor in my never humble opinion is the growing numbers of Christians in China which has come to pass in the face of intense Communist oppression lasting decades, and has happened in a way that has important historical parallels with how Christianity became the main religion in the Roman Empire in the 4th century A.D. -- By means of "Home Churches" and secret meeting places.
In China today there are more Christians than members of the Communist Party because Communism is a materialistic faith that cannot answer the big questions in life -- birth, death and God. I have no doubt in my formerly military mind that the Christians of China are key players in internal liberation from tyranny because freedom of the individual and exercise of free will is an important favor in spreading, "The Good News" to everyone.
The Turning Point in Our History"
Commentary by Robert Tracinski
If China has abandoned its Communist ideology, I have been asking, how will it be possible for it to maintain its political dictatorship? Without its ideology, on what basis can it justify its apparatus of repression?
Well, it looks like it can't. This blockbuster report indicates that there is growing resistance to political censorship--among the Communist Party elders! This whole report is very well worth reading--don't just satisfy yourself with the excerpts below, because the whole article offers some fascinating lessons. As for the cause of this rebellion against censorship, note that the author of an open letter against censorship declares that "experience shows" that a "free flow of ideas" is beneficial.
Whose experience? It is not China's experience they are relying on, but ours. Note also the influence of a "market-driven" media--which has a profit motive in uncovering stories of official corruption and misdeeds. Most interesting of all, note that the open letter speaks of "the turning point in our history from a totalitarian to a constitutional system"--as if the transition to a free society in China were already a given, and there is no argument over it.
It all starts from here: if free speech is allowed, it will lead to exposure of official corruption, to calls for allowing open political opposition, to calls for making the judiciary independent and allowing individuals to sue the government--and then the whole apparatus of dictatorship will be erased.
This is Beijing's "glasnost"--the first stage of the negotiated surrender of China's political dictatorship.
"Beijing Censors Taken to Task in Party Circles,"
Joseph Kahn, New York Times,
February 15 BEIJING, Feb. 1
A dozen former Communist Party officials and senior scholars, including a onetime secretary to Mao, a party propaganda chief and the retired bosses of some of the country's most powerful newspapers, have denounced the recent closing of a prominent news journal, helping to fuel a growing backlash against censorship.
Excellent articles and commentary concerning the rise of Christianity in China and mass unrest with the Communist regime by all sectors of public life in the PRC:
"Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 = 4; if that is granted then all else must follow."
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four
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