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FROM CHINA WATCH

Beijing's vision of collectivism Communists' latest 5-year plan seeks to 'promote spiritual civilization'

Cheers from Mexico

How has China's new five-year plan been received overseas? Mexico provides an excellent example.

On April 10, Xinhua, China's Official News Agency, reported that China's mode of social and economic development was deemed "innovative" and "successful" by Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, president of Mexico's ruling National Action Party.

The PAN has stood in opposition to the PRI Party, which has dominated Mexican politics since the 1920s. Bravo Mena was elected president of the National Action Party in 1999.

Bravo Mena, who is currently visiting China at the invitation of the Communist Party described China's development as "highly impressive." He spoke of the "great changes [that] have taken place since I came here five years ago to attend the 96th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union."

Mexico wishes to enhance its cooperation with China, as well as other economies in the Pacific Rim, said Bravo Mena, citing the facts that President Vicente Fox is planning to visit China and that Mexico will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Shanghai later this year.

Fox created a stir in California during a recent visit when he called for America to give full welfare benefits and voting rights to Mexican illegal aliens living in the U.S.

"Chinese President Jiang Zemin's ongoing visit to six Latin American countries is of great significance," Bravo Mena added. He also expressed his hope that the visit will enhance friendship and understanding and push forward cooperative relations between China and these countries in the 21st century.

"Mexico and China are highly complementary in trade," said Bravo Mena. "Bilateral trade has experienced rapid growth in the past years, and we hope our trade relations will see further development. Mexico is already a member of the World Trade Organization, and we hope to see China's entry at an early date."

Statistics released by the General Administration of Customs show that Sino-Mexican trade was up 91.8 percent in 2000 to U.S.$1.82 billion.

CHINA WATCH

Beijing's vision of collectivism Communists' latest 5-year plan seeks to 'promote spiritual civilization'

"People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism with Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well -- they talk Marxism but practice liberalism. They apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work." --Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Vol. II, pp. 31-32

By Anthony C. LoBaido
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
4/18/01

For those who believe that the communist dictatorship in Beijing is ready to enter a new era of democratic capitalism, the recent "Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," delivered at the fourth session of the Ninth National People's Congress on March 5, may prove to be an eye-opening exercise.

This is the 10th such five-year plan under communism and the first China will implement in the new century. The proposal defines objectives, guiding principles and major tasks for China's economic and social development during the next five years. The proposal was hard-hitting and elaborated on the ways and means China's dictators will attempt to implement state-sponsored socialism in the near future.

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