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Breve guida su Xi Jinping

Res publica   03.04.15  

Il leader cinese raccontato sulle pagine del New Yorker.

Before Xi took power, he was described, in China and abroad, as an unremarkable provincial administrator, a fan of American pop culture ("The Godfather," "Saving Private Ryan") who cared more about business than about politics, and was selected mainly because he had alienated fewer peers than his competitors. It was an incomplete portrait. He had spent more than three decades in public life, but Chinese politics had exposed him to limited scrutiny. At a press conference, a local reporter once asked Xi to rate his performance: "Would you give yourself a score of a hundred--or a score of ninety?" (Neither, Xi said; a high number would look “boastful,” and a low number would reflect "low self-esteem.")

But, a quarter of the way through his ten-year term, he has emerged as the most authoritarian leader since Chairman Mao. In the name of protection and purity, he has investigated tens of thousands of his countrymen, on charges ranging from corruption to leaking state secrets and inciting the overthrow of the state. He has acquired or created ten titles for himself, including not only head of state and head of the military but also leader of the Party's most powerful committees--on foreign policy, Taiwan, and the economy. He has installed himself as the head of new bodies overseeing the Internet, government restructuring, national security, and military reform, and he has effectively taken over the courts, the police, and the secret police. "He's at the center of everything," Gary Locke, the former American Ambassador to Beijing, told me.

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Superare la politica del figlio unico

Res publica   15.11.13  

Tentativi di rinnovamento a Pechino. Dopo decenni il regime ha deciso di ammorbidire la politica del figlio unico che ha creato più problemi di quanti ne intendesse risolvere e lasciando il paese alle prese con un drammatico invecchiamento della popolazione e un abnorme disparità demografica tra maschi e femmine. Ora sarà permesso alle alle coppie nelle quali uno dei due è figlio unico e che vivono in aree urbane di avere due figli.
Un passo avanti sulla strada dei diritti umani a cui si sommano la graduale abolizione dei campi di lavoro forzati e la riduzione dei reati punibili con la pena di morte.

Le riforme varate dal comitato centrale a guida Xi Jinping più in generale spingono verso una moderata apertura agli investitori esteri e alla competizione interna. Ora resta da capire quanto saranno profonde e quale sarà le tempistiche della loro attuazione.
Su questi due aspetti si gioca il futuro della Cina e del regime.

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La democrazia è un pericolo

Res publica   20.08.13  

Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.

hese seven perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was "Western constitutional democracy"; others included promoting "universal values" of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism," and "nihilist" criticisms of the party's traumatic past.

Even as Mr. Xi has sought to prepare some reforms to expose China's economy to stronger market forces, he has undertaken a "mass line" campaign to enforce party authority that goes beyond the party’s periodic calls for discipline. The internal warnings to cadres show that Mr. Xi's confident public face has been accompanied by fears that the party is vulnerable to an economic slowdown, public anger about corruption and challenges from liberals impatient for political change.

"Western forces hostile to China and dissidents within the country are still constantly infiltrating the ideological sphere," says Document No. 9, the number given to it by the central party office that issued it in April. It has not been openly published, but a version was shown to The New York Times and was verified by four sources close to senior officials, including an editor with a party newspaper.

Per le dittature. Tra cui quella di Pechino come spiega nel dettaglio Xi Jinping, presidente della Repubblica Popolare Cinese.

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Chi è Xi Jinping

Res publica   14.02.12  

Il Guardian delinea il profilo di Xi Jinping, attuale vicepresidente cinese e con ogni probabilità successore di Hu Jintao alla guida del paese, questa settimana in visita negli Stati Uniti.

The Chinese vice-president's Valentine's Day meeting with Barack Obama is notable - as are his plans to catch a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game and to return to Muscatine, the tiny Iowa town he visited in 1985 as head of an animal feed delegation.

His activities suggest he is shaping an image very different from that of the current Chinese president, Hu Jintao.

While Hu is determinedly anonymous, Xi is "a big personality", according to those who have met him.

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