Forgotten Archipelagoes: Wang Yongqing: Unwaveringly March the Path of Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics

There has been a lot of tea leaf reading and Kremlinology about this recent article by the Chairman of the CPC's  political-legal commission.  There are calls for turning to China's imperial past, etc.  In my view there is little need for guessing and surmising.  The CP recognizes that as society grows more complex and its structures elaborated the Party's command structures will inevitably weaken.  They are determined to be the Party permanently in power - and effective modernization combined with sentimental patriotic celebration is part of the plan.  - gwc
Forgotten Archipelagoes: Wang Yongqing: Unwaveringly March the Path of Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics: "
[This is an article Wang Yongqing 汪永清, the Secretary General of the CCP Central Commission for Politics and Law 中共中央政法委员会, published on the first 2015 issue of Seeking Truth 求是. The original  was translated in cooperation with Rogier Creemers and Jeremy Daum].  
0 The question of the path relates to the whole picture and decides its success or failure. The 'CCP Central Committee Decision concerning Some Major Questions in Comprehensively Moving Forwards Ruling the Country According to the Law' (hereafter simply named “Decision”) passed at the 4th Plenum of the 18th Party Congress, has clearly declared to the country and the world that we will unwaveringly march along the path of Socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.***

The core essence of the path of Socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is persisting in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, persisting in the Socialist system with Chinese characteristics and implementing the theory of Socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. The Party's leadership is the most fundamental trait of Socialist with Chinese characteristics, and the most basic guarantee for Socialist rule of law; the Socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the basic institutional basis for a Socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and it the basic institutional guarantee for comprehensively moving ruling the country according to the law forward; the theory of Socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics is the theoretical guidance and academic pillar for the Socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and the guideline for action in comprehensively moving ruling the country according to the law forward. These three aspects determine and guarantee the institutional properties and progressive orientation of constructing a Socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and constructing a Socialist rule of law country.***
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