The Chinese people are supporting the most expensive political party in the world—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A scholar of Chinese descent who does not want to make his actual identity public wrote the article under the name Mu Zhengxin. The title of the article, “The People of China Pay for the World's Most Expensive Political Party,” appeared in a recent issue of Observe China and was sponsored by an American non-government organization. The article says that the CCP, the ruling political party, is appropriating funds from the public for its own use.
"The article explains that the has CCP never admitted to having any assets, but each year it spends in excess of 226 billion yuan (USD$33 billion), all paid for by the Chinese people."
According to an overseas Chinese website Wenxuecity.com, Mu once worked as an associate professor of philosophy at a major Beijing university, majoring in classical philosophy and modern Chinese ideological history, and published two academic works. Afterward, he studied abroad at an American university.
Jing Chu, a freelance writer in China, expressed appreciation for Mu's article, saying, “It is very unjust for taxpayers because national and party treasuries are inextricable in China. In fact, our government’s financial funds belong to the party treasury. People are overwhelmed with indignation but can do nothing about it. As for corrupt communist officials, the people express their great indignation in traditional ways, such as a sarcastic remark ‘It is free to eat, drink, gamble and frequent the brothels.’”
In his article, Mu also noticed a curious phenomenon that the ruling party has formed and paid for a group of so-called “Democratic Party” organizations. Chen Yangchao, a Chinese political commentator in Denmark said, “There is no doubt that the party is a blood-sucking vampire. It is comprised of five sets of united teams: the Party, the government, the Standing Committees, the People’s Political Consultative Conferences and the Commission for Discipline Inspection. Only the government does any real work, dealing with some public affairs. Countless other subsidiary organizations including the unions, the Communist Youth League, the Women’s Federation, etc. infiltrate party pawns into every field of our social lives, bleeding taxpayers white.”
According to the latest article on Mu’s blog, China currently has 44,000 township-level, 2,800 county-level, 300 municipal-level, 31 provincial-level party committees and an unwieldy central party body. Understandably, it is expensive to maintain this ruling party considering it has tens of thousands of party organizations infiltrated in all walks of life.
Jing Chu said, “As a general rule, a political party’s funding should be based on donations from non-governmental agencies and individuals in society. It is unreasonable and illegal for a ruling party’s expenses to be borne by the national treasury. Due to the CCP’s authoritarian one-party rule, other parties are not allowed to exist, so of course there is no competition for the CCP. Thus, the CCP treats the national treasury as its own.”
Chen Yangchao said, “Because of erasing any distinction between the party’s functions and those of the government, the national treasury has become the party’s own. All of the country’s resources belong to the party. The people do not have any right to them.”
In Mu’s opinion, the National Party (Kuomintang) in Taiwan remains more ethical and free of corruption than the CCP. "This is because the Kuomintang Party in Taiwan only depends upon private interests, whereas the CCP depends entirely on resources from the taxpaying public." Jing Chu similarly said, “Nothing can be done if the CCP does not nod its head as a sign of approval. The communist officials think that they deserve the right to squander public money since they fought to win state power and rule the country. It is not different from a group of brigands.”
Chen hopes for China to carry out democratic reforms and says, “As a rule, a party should support itself by party membership dues and collecting money from its supporters. It cannot convert public money to its own use. It is illegal. How can these grievances be redressed without democratic reforms? Of course the CCP would scoff at any democratic reform, which might harm their own position of power.”
According to an article published by a Chinese official website, the China Elections & Governance, 90% of the operating budget of the CCP comes from state financial allocations and only 10% from the party’s membership dues.
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