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BEIJING: China's top political advisory body ended its ten day gathering Monday with a resolution against Taiwan independence and praise for President Hu Jintao's new rhetoric on how to rule China.
The decision to use the toothless Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as the platform for renewed saber-rattling against Taiwan and affirmation of Hu's “socialist concept of honor and disgrace” is noteworthy for several reasons.
Analysts are now getting the opportunity to connect more of the dots toward understanding the apparatchik mindset of the fourth generation leadership which controls the 70 million members of the Communist Party of China who guide the national destiny.
Today, as triple crown holder — Party General Secretary, President and Central Military Commission chairman — Hu Jintao is asserting his position as first among equals at a time when the Party is in crisis over its relevancy to a fifth of the planet's population.
Hu and his cohorts are the first leaders to be brought up since childhood under the Communist system created by Chairman Mao. Unquestioning belief in such institutions, ingrained from an early age, cannot help but shape who Hu is and what he thinks is best for his country.
One of those institutions is the CPPCC, first established with American participation sixty years ago. A Political Consultative Conference was created in January 1946 as part of the effort to create a coalition government between the Communist and Nationalist party factions following World War II with Gen. George C. Marshall acting as a mediator.
When Marshall returned to the U.S. in disgust after his mission failed in bitter recrimination, the organization was taken over by the Communists as part of their “United Front” strategy of cooperating with other political parties to legitimate and consolidate its bid for power.
When the Communist victory was apparent in 1949, the “Chinese People's” part of the acronym was added. The CPPCC was then deemed “the highest organ of state power” and declared the founding of the People's Republic in October 1949; it was all downhill for the group after that.
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