BEIJING, March 8 — Like a giant company concerned with organizational disarray and a sinking public image, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to remake itself into an efficient, modern machine. But to do so, it has chosen one of its oldest political tools — a Maoist-style ideological campaign, complete with required study groups.
For 14 months and counting, the party's 70 million rank-and-file members have been ordered to read speeches by Mao and Deng Xiaoping, as well as the numbing treatise of 17,000-plus words that is the party constitution. Mandatory meetings include sessions where cadres must offer self-criticisms and also criticize everyone else.
"Relative to economic development and social progress, the government has not done enough to actively protect and expand civic rights," said the report issued by the Open Constitution Initiative, an independent organization that investigates claims of rights violation and pushes policy change.
I would question the motives of the Open Constitution Initiative schooled in the United States and into privatization and corporate governance. We cannot rape a country properly unless they privatize. You have only to look at Russia.
These guys are American agents, I would think.
Zhang Dajun: Mr. Zhang, an M.B.A. graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has been working on business strategy issues at IBM Business Consulting Services in Beijing for the past two years. He is also a nationally recognized public interest advocate in China. Among his activities, he is the organizer of the biweekly Salon in Beijing, the leader of the media forum at the Open Constitution Initiative, and an active member of a leading independent rural development organization. While at Yale, Mr. Zhang will be conducting comparative research on privatization and corporate governance.
Xu Zhiyong: Professor Xu teaches law in the Law and Humanities School of the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He received his Ph.D. in law from Beijing University. Professor Xu was a key figure in the campaign to abolish the Chinese system of “custody and repatriation”. He also is the founder of The Open Constitution Initiative, an independent center working to advance constitutional government in China. He recently won the only openly contested election for a seat in the Beijing People’s Congress. While at The China Law Center, Prof. Xu will conduct research on comparative constitutional law. http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:DLehqR29_PAJ:chinalaw.law.yale.edu/html/fellows.htm++%22Open+Con...
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