CCP Commemorates Four Decades of Reform and Opening Up Following its "Third Plenary Session," How about the DPP?

 CCP Commemorates Four Decades of Reform and Opening Up Following its "Third Plenary Session," How about the DPP?

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

November 4, 2018

 Translation of an Excerpt

Four decades ago, the CCP convoked the Third Plenary Session of the 11^th National People’s Congress, jettisoning the theories of "class struggle as the fundamental policy" and "the continuing revolution of the proletariat dictatorship,” affirming "economic construction" as the center, and "to reform and open up" has thus become the content of the new spirit and core faith of the CCP. The DPP also had a “four-decade” of its own, that is the “Formosa Magazine Incident,” which happened thirty-nine years ago. This incident started the progression of Taiwan’s democracy, breaking through many political taboos and barriers.

Why do we bring these two subjects together? For no other reason but that they each blazed the trail in the development paths of the two sides of the Strait, hence leading to completely different politico-economic features across the Strait. Since the founding of the CCP, in order to leap into a communist society, Mao Zedong, in succession, pushed for radical movements such as “the Three Red Flags” and the Cultural Revolution, embroiling the country into a holocaust. The convocation of the Third Plenary Session aimed at solving the contradictions between the political faith and political objectives of the CCP. Its approach was as follows: shelving the Marxist-Leninist "faith" and substituting it with the pretext of the "initial stage theory," so as to embrace "seeking welfare for the people," which was, and is, the fundamental objective of political work.

Contrary to this, the DPP adopted the "Taiwan independence party platform," changing course by pursuing Taiwan independence as its new faith, which has also brought Taiwan the bitter fruits of a three-decade confrontation between reunification and independence, between identity and division, and rupture of harmony between communal groups. Following the “Third Plenary Session,” the values embraced by the CCP were seriously absent in the DPP’s system; from Chen Shui-bian to Tsai Ing-wen's rule, "economic construction" has never been a primary value.

Recently, Xi Jinping went to Guangdong for inspection; as the 40th anniversary of implementing "reform and opening up" was being commemorated, he wanted to once again call for the zeal of reform and opening up by injecting dynamism into the transformation of the Chinese Mainland. If the DPP, however, could not engage in self-subversion, then it could only wait to be jettisoned by the vox populi.

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