{"id":183721,"date":"2015-05-21T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=183721"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:53:30","slug":"boxun-unified-strategy-vs-hostile-rightist-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/05\/boxun-unified-strategy-vs-hostile-rightist-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxun: Unified Strategy vs Hostile Rightist Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"
Overseas political news website Boxun obtained a purported memo from a telephone conference of the National Security Commission<\/a>\u00a0describing\u00a0official efforts toward a unified crackdown on politically-liberal thought and civil society. In the contemporary Chinese political context, a devotion to tenets of political liberalism\u2014such as universal human rights values, freedom, and democracy\u2014is referred to as \u201crightist\u201d (\u53f3\u6d3e). (For a helpful primer on this phraseology, easily misunderstood from a Western political perspective, see Tea Leaf Nation\u2019s 2012 translation of an infographic \u201cGuide to Chinese Politics.\u201d<\/a>) In this leaked correspondence, well known pro-democracy, human rights activists who have recently found themselves on trial are called\u00a0\u201cmajor rightists\u201d (\u4e3b\u8981\u53f3\u6d3e). Boxun\u2019s post<\/strong><\/a> is translated below, and important context is noted in brackets:<\/p>\n New Anti-rightist Strategy Deployment:<\/strong><\/p>\n Founded last year, the\u00a0National Security Commission is directly overseen by Xi Jinping. Read more about the Xi administration’s ongoing campaigns to promote ideological orthodoxy<\/a>, which have included a drive\u00a0against Western values in academia<\/a>\u00a0and within the Party<\/a>, the presidential\u00a0praising of nationalistic bloggers<\/a>\u00a0and the development of\u00a0propaganda strategies fit for the digital age<\/a>, and most recently the drafting of the\u00a0Foreign NGO Management Law, which has\u00a0attracted\u00a0criticism<\/a>\u00a0for its overly-broad definition of non-government organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overseas political news website Boxun obtained a purported memo from a telephone conference of the National Security Commission\u00a0describing\u00a0official efforts toward a unified crackdown on politically-liberal thought and civil society. In the contemporary Chinese political context, a devotion to tenets of political liberalism\u2014such as universal human rights values, freedom, and democracy\u2014is referred to as \u201crightist\u201d (\u53f3\u6d3e). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":183723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,116,14744,14745,14746,100,5,4202],"tags":[406,130,15936,2286,16746,473,301,477,7857,14052,4674,3604],"class_list":["post-183721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-boxun","tag-democracy","tag-gao-yu","tag-guo-feixiong","tag-guo-yushan","tag-ideology","tag-political-reform","tag-pu-zhiqiang","tag-rightist","tag-universal-values","tag-xi-jinping","tag-xu-zhiyong","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n\n