A Secret Document Reportedly Reveals The 7 Things That Keep China's Political Elite Up At Night

[FarCenter]

China's Communist Party is passing around a memo from senior leaders, referred to as "Document No. 9," that outlines exactly what the Xi Jinping's political elite are really scared of, Christopher Buckley of the New York Times reports.

The Times reports that the memo refers to "seven perils" for the party:

The first was “Western constitutional democracy;” others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civil society, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.

The memo sounds similar to another mentioned earlier this year in an article by Michael Sheridan of the UK's Sunday Times, which told officials they must “completely understand the harm of viewpoints and theories propagated by the West” and “use battlefield tactics” to defeat liberals.

Sheridan also reported that another memo being sent to China's universities told them to avoid “seven evil subjects," which were listed as "universal values; western ideas of the freedom of the press; civil society; civic rights; historical mistakes of the Communist party; crony networks; and judicial independence."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-memo-from-chinese-leaders-2013-8

[MissMarple]

1. Well, good luck with that. Or not.

The Chinese government can't stop any of those things. They can warp or cripple change for a while, but the modernity fairy's dust is out of the bag. Interesting and painful at the same time.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Sounds like the Chinese are trying to steal ...

the GOP ideas.

[MissMarple]

3. I think it means that the controllers of the GOP are authoritarian and totalitarian,

as are the Chinese leaders. The Chinese have been doing this much longer. The Russians are beginning to wake up in spite of Putin and his kind, I think the Chinese eventually will, as well.