Wei Jingsheng

China is less a socialist nation than a throwback to a feudal regime based on serfdom. The mainland has never been socialist; democratic nations are socialist because they take care of their people and do not empower a small cohort of capitalists as Beijing is doing. Sadly, this path will lead to wars, poverty and uprisings. We must turn around China’s reckless economic development.

According to the great dissident, the U.S battle (and now also Europe’s) to have the Yuan revalued is a sign that the alliance between Western capitalism and the Chinese regime is at an end. This alliance was born from the greed of a few Western investors, who married Beijing’s corruption and indifference towards its own population. It benefited only a few. The American and the Chinese people were excluded.

The great Chinese dissident warns about a rising number of traitors within the pro-democracy movement, inside and outside of China. He offers a way to limit their harm. The Communists are afraid of the movement and are trying to destroy it within.

The renowned dissident explains why his country’s economy could collapse unless huge profits generated by excessive workers´ exploitation are trimmed. However, this is impossible because Beijing has convinced the world that trade is worth repression.

The great dissident analyzes the series of suicides in the Guangdong factory and points the finger at the Chinese social system, which transforms businessmen (even Western) into devils without morals, cancels labour rights, morality and democracy in the name of profit. The collusion of business and media in the West.

The great Chinese dissident compares the two tigers of Asian Development and warns: the domestic opposition is increasing, and is increasingly determined. Even the West is disappointed: its policy of tolerance towards human rights violations, has not led to anything, not even greater economic benefits

The well-known Chinese dissident analyzes the fall of the Soviet empire, but also shows its rebirth in autocratic states allies of the West. For example China and Vietnam. The need to help young people re-establish a more genuine democracy.

Only respect for fundamental liberties will guarantee fair trade. The forced devaluation of the yuan has created huge problems for the international financial system; it could also fracture Chinese society. It also leads to low quality and imitation. The “father of democracy” gives advice to the US president who just got back home after his visit to Beijing.

Hope for some movement on human rights and the release of political prisoners fades. Broad issues like the yuan-dollar rate, Afghanistan, Iran are part of an impossible diplomacy. US big business and the Chinese Communist Party are the big winners. The “father of democracy” in China provides an analysis of the situation.

As Beijing launches a ‘Xinjiang’s charm’ campaign to draw tourists back to the region and its old ‘Silk Road’, the father of China’s pro-democracy movement, currently living in exile, says the killing in Xinjiang earlier this month was planned to turn public opinion away from infighting in the Communist Party and China’s campaign to extend its control over petroleum-producing nations in Central Asia and the Middle East.

China supports Kim Jong-il’s regime with food, energy and industrial products. Beijing is using Pyongyang to force the United States to compromises that will guarantee the Chinese Communist Party survival. A keen analysis by one of the “Fathers of Democracy” currently exiled in the United States.

The days of Tiananmen in 1989 were important for the world and for China, and show that the desire for freedom and freedom of expression are the basis for all real change. A reflection written for AsiaNews by the “Father of democracy” in China, to an exile in the United States.