Zhao, Feb 2
News and Comments, Feb. 2, 2015
Jia Zhangke’s short film Smog Journey, invited by Greenpeace.
He described it as a poetic portrait of people trying to live a decent lifestyle in extremely adverse conditions.
A high ranking CCP official invited the BBC to his home and find an image of the Dalai Lama displayed. What does this mean?
邓聿文：如何看待中国政治的山头现象
Deng Yuwen: How to look at the sectarianism in China's political sphere
The author is the deputy editor at the Central Party School’s weekly newspaper the Study Times
1, A major point of this year's anti-corruption campaign is to target at sectarianism. The Chinese Communist Party has stressed many times that it absolutely does not tolerate sectarianism, which means there is serious sectarianism within the party. The gang of sectaries, gang of oil, gang of Shanxi, and gang of the “west mountain” are considered some major tigers involved in sectarianism.
1, 中国今年的一个反腐重点指向山头主义。中国领导人多次强调，
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(There is sectarianism everywhere in the world since the old times. And there is sectarianism in all kinds of social organizations)
2, In terms of a political party it is the same. It is true that there are common goals and ideas within the party, but because the party is consisted of members with different background and education and class, each member has their own views and opinions, as well as interests. It is very normal for members with the same opinions and policy advocacy ideas to form a different branch to compete and gamble with others, to win support from other party members. It is also a representation of democracy within the Party. So from the the perspective of democracy, sectarianism is not horrible; to the opposite, it actually helps promoting democracy. Democracy is to let people with different views, opinions and interests to voice themselves, and let the society to choose. Those whose advocates are most beneficial to society, most beneficial to the majority of the people will be more likely to win support.
2, 对一个政党来说，同样如此。政党虽有共同的目标和理念，
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3, Under this circumstances, if there is no resolution among different parties or branches' conflicts, there might be huge rupture within the party. Some party members might leave the party and form a new party. If this becomes true, there is nothing to fear. In Western countries, their Party members are not obliged to agree with all the advocates in the party, as long as they agree with the principals. If someone changes their mind, they could withdraw from the party any time. So in the West, one person could be a Republican today and a Democratic the next day. It is very normal. It is not rare for a Party to separate because of conflicts within.
3, 在这种情况下，党内不同派系的博弈如果无法调和，
4, What could be grave because of sectarianism? Unclear rules, lack of transparency or mechanism among competition of different parties will lead to secret plots. People will try to win their dominance by power instead of reasoning or good advocacy. This is the worst case scenario. Therefore, it is not terrible to have small groups, what is terrible is no role of competition.
4, 山头或拉帮结派在什么情况下才不好？规则不明，
(The author is a popular commentator)
Western Values are like Flood and Beasts, what about Marxism and Leninism?
Headline: 西方价值观念如洪水猛兽，那马列呢？
1, After seriously studying the speech by Minister of Education Yuan Guiren, I have come to the realization that Western values are like flood and beasts and we should stead forwardly resist them. There are lots of problems with original Western textbooks. Many professors and lecturers at universities are quite disappointing. They lack political awareness and they complain a lot, which really have bad influence on their students. In that case, what I really don't understand is how come Marx's thoughts and philosophies are compulsory courses for all university students? How come English is a major exam for not only university students, but even primary students?
1, 仔细品味教育部长袁贵仁的讲话，
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2, We have always advocated the three aspects of confidence. Then how come we are so inconfident with our own culture and values. We have a gigantic propaganda apparatus. We have complete surveillance. All the TV, print media and the Internet are censored. Text books are controlled as well. Why are they afraid of some lecturers' complaints? If they really badmouth some Party leaders or speak ill of socialists thoughts, students could just report them. Why make such a fuss about it?
2, 我们一直宣传三个自信，
3, In general, the intelligenstia is rational and objective. It is a shame that leaders don't view it this way. Normally their eyes are covered by a piece of leaf and magnify some intellectuals' inappropriate emotions, like a hedgehog full of spikes, once they are close they start to fight each other. This is an extreme form of lack of confidence, or another form of natzism or an extreme form of nationalism. If there are no complaints tolerated in class, no complaints tolerated on the Internet, there will definitely be more in the streets!
3, 整体而言，知识界是理性而客观的。但是遗憾的是，
聂辉华：官员自杀为何频繁发生
Interivew with Nie Huihua, deputy director of Renmin University's National Academy of Development and Strategy
1, After the Western New Year in 2015, many local party organizations, univerities and government corporations have forwarded the “Notice of Abnormal Death Survey of Party Officials Since the 18th Party Congress”. Some Party agencies in Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Guangdong, Fujiang, Anhui and Sichuan have released this notice on their websites.
1, 2015年元旦过后，全国多地区的党政机关、
2, Recently, from media reports we could see that there is an increasing number of officials's abnromal deaths. We could see it very clearly from the survey that among the places for suicide for people to report, these places include “office buildings, home, hotels, the bureaus of discipline, detention centers, bridges, parks, hospitals, etc.” People were required to choose among the spots and indicate details.
2, 近年来，从媒体披露的相关信息看，官员非正常死亡案例日益增多。
3, Among the reasons of suicides, there are: A, involved in disobeying rules and regulations; B: have depression or other mental diseases; C: too much pressure from work; D: too much pressure from life; E: domestic conflicts; F: reasons unclear; G: other reasons. Nie Huihua says that the order of these options may indicate the frequency order of official's reasons of suicide, but it might also be because of policy reasons. “From the perspective of protecting the organizations and the maintaining the purity of their leaders, the upper level is obviously more interested in the suicides concerning
3, 在统计表的“自杀原因选项”中，包含有A、涉嫌违纪违法；B、
4, On one had, there is an increasing number of officials' suicides. On the other hand, there is a decreasing number of officials' death sentence. Nie Huihua analyzed that reasons to commit suicide include: covering crimes, protecting their members of interests, protecting their families' assets and also the lack of confidence of the judiciary system. Officials whose suicide are not related to corruption, according to public information, are mostly because of depression, serious disease of family conflicts.
4, 一方面，贪腐官员自杀数量上升，另一方面，
5, Anti-corruption will lead to the increasing pressure on officials. If their evidence is exposed they will be thrown into jail. So it is logical that more officials choose to commit suicide. Of course, more careful causal relations requires more samples and more detailed data. But so far this kind of studies are not suitable, says Nie Huihua.
5, “反腐会导致官员压力加大，罪证暴露，很可能最终锒铛入狱，
6, If the anti-corruption campaign continues to carry on, will there will be more officials' abnormal deaths? Nie Huihua thinks that it depends on the measures in the process of anti-corruption campaign. It includes the transparency, organization and independence of corruption investigation. From the perspective of anti-corruption campaign, if officials involved choose to commit suicide or have other kinds of abnormal deaths, part of evidence will be destroyed, which will not be helpful to continue with anti-corruption. It is also difficult to retrieve assets back, which is also a loss of social wealth.
6, 如果反腐高压态势持续，是否官员非正常死亡人数仍会不断攀升？
Sinica Podcast run a show on official suicide in summer 2014, they started talking about it since around the 26 minutes, they talked about Hong Kong in the beginning.
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