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5 Sep 2010
by Admin
True Democracy:
Mass
Democracy,
Grassroots Democracy
On
the 65th anniversary of Chinese victory over
Japanese invasion in the WWII, Professor
Zhang Hongliang (张宏良) from a university in
Beijing called to reflect on the lessons of the past and to stay vigilant for
the current threats, internally and externally:
"Prior to the
first Sino-Japan War in 19th century,
a Japanese spy who previously lurked
in China for almost his entire life
handed over a war strategy to his
government, proposing to conquer
China through cultural
warfare. He
urged Japan to seize China's media
first so as to allow Japan to claim
moral high ground through propaganda;
once it is done, the rest would fall
into place easily – just using
military means to eliminate those who
refuse to barge.
By then Japan
attempted to drive the Western force
out of East Asia and establish itself
as the new ruling power in the
region, for which it needed to seize
control of China's resource and
territory, so it depicted Japanese
colony as "Promise Land”; by
now the United States strives for
making China pay
for its astronomical debts, for
which it needs to be able to swing
China's political system and public
opinion, thus it wholesells US-style
democracy to
Chinese as “Universal Value”.
"19世纪末甲午战争前夕，毕生潜伏在中国的日本间谍大师宗方小太郎提出了对中国进行'文力讨伐'的深远战略，就是先控制中国媒体，占领道义制高点，在文化上先战胜中国；'文力讨伐'取得成功以后，随后再进行武力讨伐；武力讨伐主要是打击那些死硬抗日的极端势力.
当初日本需要中国资源抗衡欧美，今天美国需要中国资源为透支的危机买单；更加相同的是'文力讨伐'的口号同样振奋人心——过去是建立“共存共荣'的'王道乐土'，现在是推广“自由民主”的'普世价值'。"
Japan's
promise land
proved to be the realm of hell that
resulted in the death
of millions of Chinese and
resulted Japan to be overruled by a
Western military power for the next
65 years, while American-style
democracy is being proved to be a
game of elites at the expense of the
majority people in the nation."
Professor
Zhang regards the American-style
democracy as a form of dictatorship by a
minority elite group over the majority
people in the community, and advocates to
replace it with the genuine democracy:
mass democracy.
In
mass democracy - as it is proposed by
Zhang and a number of left-leaning
intellectuals in China - citizens should
not only have a right to scrutinise the
performance of government at all levels,
but the right to vote any unqualified
officials out of their office.
Zhang
believes that with the world having
entered an internet age, the mass
democracy shall be able to materialise in
the 21st century which will open a door
for the new world order that promotes a balanced respect for the
rights of every individuals, groups and
nations, not a privileged few; which
appreciates culture over profit,
encourages cooperation over competition.
"大众政治取代精英政治，将是21世纪人类社会最伟大的历史转变。这一伟大的历史转变，将奠定人类走向大同世界的历史起点"。
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