CHINA-INTERNAL: TELECONFERENCE OF NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION
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The Canada-based political news website 'Boxun' claims to have obtained a memo from a telephone conference of the National Security Commission describing official efforts toward a unified crackdown on politically-liberal thought and civil society. A translation of Boxun's post is given below:: New Anti-rightist Strategy Deployment:
A list of the country’s major rightists shall be compiled to National Security Commission for developing a unified plan for their management. Regional flexibility in the punishment of rightists will not be tolerated.
Search for innovative legal instruments to control, and then indict, representative individuals from that list.
Do not accept interference from international and domestic public opinion. The fight against rightist hostile forces must have theoretical and judicial confidence. [This follows on the rhetoric of the “Confidence Doctrine", a signature political philosophy of Xi Jinping’s administration.]
To internally illustrate this political agenda to our national legal apparatus, focus must be put on domestic judicial cases against hostile rightist forces. Allow the entire judiciary to firmly grasp the political direction of how such cases are handled, and to understand that the administration of justice unconditionally follows the Party’s will. For example, the case of Xu Zhiyong was handled to curb the instigation of mass disturbance by so-called liberal intellectuals; the case of Gao Yu was handled to stifle the communication channels of those “Democracy elders” [former senior officials who advocate democracy] to the international community; the case of Guo Yushan was handled to combat the infiltration and sabotage of the country by foreign reactionary NGOs; the case of Pu Zhiqiang was handled to restrain so-called “diehard” lawyers from disturbing and damaging the normal judicial order; the case of Guo Feixiong was handled to contain street disturbances in the southern part of the country; etc.
Mobilize all means of propaganda and public opinion guidance to make it clear to the masses and to the international community that our crackdown on these hostile elements in necessary and just. Create strong public opinion with positive energy.
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