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\"BigXI\"<\/a>

“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, stability maintenance is rights defense.” (artist unknown)<\/p><\/div>\n

In today’s People’s Daily, Central Politics and Law Commission Secretary Meng Jianzhu reports Xi Jinping’s main points from a recent commission working meeting. In the article “Scientific Guide to Political and Legal Work Under New Circumstances” (\u65b0\u5f62\u52bf\u4e0b\u653f\u6cd5\u5de5\u4f5c\u7684\u79d1\u5b66\u6307\u5357<\/a>), Meng writes that Xi “clearly indicated that rights defense is the basis of stability maintenance, and stability maintenance is the essence of rights defense” (\u660e\u786e\u6307\u51fa\u7ef4\u6743\u662f\u7ef4\u7a33\u7684\u57fa\u7840\uff0c\u7ef4\u7a33\u7684\u5b9e\u8d28\u662f\u7ef4\u6743).<\/p>\n

Xi invoked the “Marxist legal perspective” (\u9a6c\u514b\u601d\u4e3b\u4e49\u6cd5\u5f8b\u89c2) in explaining the relationship between the Party’s leadership and independent courts, writes Meng.<\/p>\n

Stability maintenance has been a key government policy since the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration. Maintaining social stability often means suppressing unrest, rather than solving the grievances that people have brought to the public’s attention.<\/p>\n

Meng’s article comes just days after rights defense lawyer Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to four years in prison<\/a> for “gathering crowds to disturb public order,” while others involved in his New Citizens Movement<\/a> have also recently stood trial. Xu said his sentence stripped away “the Chinese legal system\u2019s last shred of dignity,” according to his lawyer.<\/p>\n

Weibo user MerlotN sees the doublespeak of George Orwell’s novel 1984<\/em>\u00a0in Xi’s declaration:<\/p>\n

Never again will I call Xi Jinping an uncultured, idiotic, illiterate thug. To George Orwell’s “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength,” Xi has added “stability maintenance is rights defense.” It’s fucking perfect.<\/p>\n

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Human Rights Watch argues that the crackdown on New Citizens undermines Xi’s anti-corruption campaign and contradicts the Supreme People’s Court instructions to leave “pressure to maintain stability” out of court decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Qiwen Lu\u00a0via CDT Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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