About looking at the problem. (As part of a discussion)
Before our very eyes, over the past few decades, an industrial, economic, and political giant has grown right at the borders of the Russian Federation - the People’s Republic of China, a country that has a thousand-kilometer border with us, ten times as large a population, and a powerful rapidly developing industry. The Chinese factor has essentially global significance, largely determining the course of world politics and economics.
The problem of the relationship between these two countries is basically political. In politics, its essence. Both the political forces of the Russian Federation contribute to the desire to organize a “tear” between the two countries, Russia and China, and to the tendency to consolidate the relations between the two states. Some of them are guided by their own political interests, while others work on an "American order." You can recall the "heartbreaking" "stories" about the Chinese who are going to pump Baikal to the bottom, the argument that the Chinese cannot be trusted - they are plotting to "take" Siberia and the Far East from us (despite the fact that China and the Russian Federation do not have no mutual territorial claims). At the same time, the Russian liberal opposition (oddly enough) is blowing the same tune with the mossy Russian patriots (the United States does not want a rapprochement between the Russian Federation and China). A little aside is the barbaric cutting down of the Siberian taiga by the “newly arrived” Chinese bourgeoisie. There is probably a lot of truth here. But, after all, the main culprits here are quite obvious. This is the Government of the Russian Federation, and local authorities, allowing the blatant lack of control of the situation.
The communists of the Russian Federation are especially distrusted by the regime of "market socialism" that has prevailed in the PRC for several decades. Unfortunately, the principle prevails here: “it doesn’t matter how much we know, it’s important to criticize stronger”! Well, the results are appropriate! We will try briefly, but based on facts, to give the main provisions of the current state system of the PRC. It is very useful to compare it with the structure of the USSR during the NEP (namely, the NEP!) And the current state of the Russian Federation after the bourgeois counter-revolution of 1991-1993.
It all started like that. The III Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee of the 11th convocation (December 1978) proclaimed a course towards a socialist market economy with a combination of two systems: a planned distribution and a market one with massive attraction of foreign investment, greater economic independence of enterprises, the introduction of family contracts in rural areas, and a reduction in the share of the public sector in the economy , the opening of free economic zones, overcoming poverty, the development of science and technology. The situation in the PRC at that time was simple: general malnutrition, hunger, mass unemployment, there was no one to hope for economic assistance, just like after the Civil War and before the NEP in the USSR.
But the course taken by the CCP in those years was radically different from the radical destruction of socialist conquests and the prohibition of the Communist Party, as in the USSR in 1991-1993. Moreover, the CCP said: Comrades! To realize a great cause, it is necessary to have leadership from a strong party. Only under the condition of a powerful and effective party building, only under the condition that the party will always live with the people alone and work together with it, we will certainly be able, breaking waves, to bring the ship that carries the great dream of the Chinese people to the shining shore of victory! The construction of a market economy is carried out in China under the leadership of the Communist Party on the basis of five-year plans. The economy remains multilayered. With a high share of foreign investment, almost 80% of all foreign investors in the economy of the PRC are ethnic Chinese (Huaqiao) living abroad. In China, land is state and collective property. A consistent course is being taken towards basic food self-sufficiency of the country, keeping it mainly at a level above 90%. In terms of GDP, which rose from 54 trillion. RMB to 80 trillion. RMB, China is firmly in second place in the world. A fierce fight against corruption in the state apparatus is being waged - compare with the situation in the modern RF. After all, everyone who is not lazy is stolen and receives bribes here.
Over the past years of reforms in the PRC, the population is provided with food and clothing, the life of the people as a whole has risen to the level of average prosperity, and the country has grown to the level of a super giant. What collapse occurred in the Russian Federation in the years after the bourgeois counter-revolution, we studied in our own skin.
The party leadership of the PRC maintains a balance between economic growth and increased military spending. “We do not participate in an arms race and do not pose a military threat to any of the countries,” said Chinese supreme leader Hu Jintao during a visit to the United States in 2011.
“We will with steadfast determination to achieve the full construction of a prosperous society and make every effort to win the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era,” say modern leaders of the CPC.
Comparing the principles and results in the socio-political development of the USSR in during the NEP and after the bourgeois counter-revolution in the Russian Federation with social transformations in China, you clearly understand that here we were talking about fundamentally different things. If in the case of the bourgeois counterrevolution of 1991-1993. it was a question of the principled and deliberate destruction of the entire socialist legacy mainly by traitors from the ruling CPSU, then the other two cases were the desperate struggle of the ruling communist parties to save the country, people, and socialist achievements.
Summarizing the material of the note, one can justifiably name the social transformations in the PRC as the “Chinese NEP”.
Material prepared by S.V. Khristenko
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From the editors
It is unlikely that “heartbreaking” “stories” about the Chinese who want to pump water from Baikal or that they are going to “take” Siberia and the Far East from us should be sarcastically criticized. And the AUCPB has no “own political interests” in the analysis of relations between the Russian Federation and China. But one cannot ignore the fact that the Chinese are particularly interested in the forests of Siberia and the water of Lake Baikal. This is especially true for Chinese businessmen.
It cannot but cause serious concern that many Chinese schools study official Chinese maps in geography classes (and not only in schools), on which the entire Far East of Russia is the territory of the PRC ... Chinese history textbooks state that " Siberia is a temporarily lost territory of the Celestial Empire ... ”These same ideas are freely voiced in the Chinese press. What is the attitude of our Chinese comrades in this way to the population of China in Russia? It is only natural that anyone who is capable of thinking raises the question: are our friends in China preparing for the future generation of China to capture Russian Siberia and the Far East?
Further, by definition, only one who recognizes the dictatorship of the proletariat can call himself a communist. Beginning at the 15th All-China Congress (September 12-18, 1997 under the CPC Secretary General Deng Xiaoping, who proclaimed "the unification of Marxism with reality"), both the proletarians (oppressed) and their masters (the bourgeoisie) are members of the Chinese Communist Party. This is “socialism with Chinese characteristics” ... What political class dictatorship is exercised by the current government in China? During the Soviet NEP, representatives of the bourgeois class could not be members of the CPSU (b). There has never been a case in history for the bourgeoisie to give up power by joining the ruling party ... Whoever defeats whom, time will tell.
Socrates is my friend, but truth is dearer - a well-known catchphrase leading back to the times of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece.
Hammer and Sickle No. 10 (311), 2019
