Today I have for you a small look at some profiles of the major parties in a China where the students pulled it off. Tiananmen Square resulted in the end of the communist regime and we are looking in at the parties major and secondary with minor parties coming soon.
Major Parties:
People’s Party
The main party led by Chai Ling mostly defined not by ideology but by Chai Ling who as the papers say is holding the party together with every finger toe and tooth she has like a collapsing bedsheet. They are a self proclaimed Liberal/Progressive party but are really just a big unwieldy coalition of businesses, students and a surprisingly large bloc of socialists.
Communist Party of China
The old main dictatorial party now led by Zhao Ziyang a moderate of the old CCP this party has been defined by one word “flailing” with Den Xiaoping or “Grandpa” as he is increasingly known breaking off to form the more moderate “Labor Party” (more on them later). The CCP’s new platform is rather muddled combining a weird kind of really intense but not that far left welfarism coupled with clear social conservatism but even then factionalism mainly over the writing of the new constitution is extremely prevalent.
Han National Political Association-Together!
The last of the major parties formed last year out of various local Han Parties that very surprisingly did very well in many municipalities they quickly seeing their numbers formed the Han National Political Association and formed an Alliance with Together! (Also can be translated as “Victory” or “National Now”) another far right coalition more focused on expansionism mainly around Taiwan and opposing the significant separatist feeling among China’s many minority ethnic groups. They have a surprising platform of course there is the expectable elements of ethnic and ultranationalism brutal reprisals against separatists and annexing Taiwan before a proposed 1996 referendum but they also are clearly center right economically and more moderate on women’s issues. Despite being called neofascist their leaders have reportedly been made to mimic George H.W. Bush in their style.
Secondary Parties:
Labor Party
Deng Xiaoping has taken his personal political outfit in a unique direction after walking out of the CCP the Labor Party was expected to be a more stricter socialist party but Deng has swung hard to the center purging his own loyalist deputies and releasing a decidedly socially democratic platform trying to posture as the de facto center left party in China very supportive of unions and women’s issues.
Minority List
A coalition of a small variety of parties mostly for non Han people that once was a huge variety of separatist regionalist and Autonomist parties but ever since the Tibetan and Uyghur independences movements swung hard and quickly towards nationalism and the Uyghur separatists started openly flirting with Islamism the List has become more singularly regionalist since then expelling most separatists. They are the de facto third largest party due to their almost unanimous support in Xinjiang and Tibet but those are mostly in very small villages and towns. They are if you count only elected local politicians the third largest party in China but counting real voters they are around 9th.
New Political Project
This modest new party has shaved off a segment of the CCP with a publicly facing center left *cough* Covertly Maoist *cough* platform. They are the CCP’s shiny new backup plan set up by old mid level hardliners who managed to burn anything that connected them to the CCP before Tiananmen Square succeeded but when the writing was still on the wall. They like to say they are very pro democracy and a party for reformed communists but bizarrely are also sexist and support Mao’s communal farming under layers and layers of political language.
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