It had a modern legal system, vibrant civil society, largely free press, and autonomous schools and universities. The Republic of China had been founded in 1912, and is frequently referred to as the first democratic republic in Asia.
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The CCP lays claim to the establishment of a “people’s democracy” in China, or what Mao Zedong once described as a “democracy for the people” and “dictatorship for the enemy”.īut in reality, the party established a totalitarian state that interrupted China’s march toward constitutional democracy. The CCP should never be forgiven for its crime of killing up to 45 million people through the Great Leap Forward campaign, which led to the worst man-made famine in Chinese history.Īnd according to different poverty measurements now used by the World Bank, there are still potentially hundreds of millions of Chinese still living beneath the poverty line. While it is true abject poverty has declined sharply in recent decades, it must be remembered that failed CCP policies condemned millions of people to poverty in the first place. Earlier this year, in fact, President Xi Jinping trumpeted a “complete victory” in the CCP’s goal of eradicating rural poverty - a drive some analysts say was not cost-effective or sustainable. The CCP and its supporters take particular delight in their claim the party “ lifted” hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty.
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The world has a hard time trusting China.
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US Signal Corps/Wikimedia CommonsĬhinese citizens, including peasants, also enjoyed full property rights under the modern legal system created by the government of the Republic of China, as well as the right to establish and operate free enterprises.Īll of these accomplishments were destroyed by the CCP, which confiscated private property, eliminated entire classes of urban capitalists and rural landlords, and wasted opportunities for economic growth for three lost decades before returning China to a semi-market economy in the 1980s.