Sunday, January 18, 2009

China Fears Taint of West

The fourth highest official in the Communist Party of China, one Jia Qinglin, has written the following political prescription in the Party's ideological journal. Reuters reports Jia Qinglin said China must:
Build a line of defence to resist Western two-party and multi-party systems, bicameral legislature, the separation of powers and other kinds of erroneous ideological interferences.

It certainly sounds like China is trying to copy the alternative model pioneered by Singapore with its mix of market economics and oligarchic politics.