{"id":1712299,"date":"2022-10-26T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712299"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:18:24","slug":"democrats-claiming-to-defend-democracy-are-adopting-the-tactics-of-authoritarian-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-claiming-to-defend-democracy-are-adopting-the-tactics-of-authoritarian-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Claiming To \u2018Defend Democracy\u2019 Are Adopting The Tactics Of Authoritarian China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-claiming-to-defend-democracy-are-adopting-the-tactics-of-authoritarian-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the name of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/25\/democrats-the-only-way-to-save-democracy-is-one-party-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defending democracy<\/a>,\u201d American Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/12\/the-2024-election-is-being-rigged-right-now-in-plain-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weaponized<\/a> our government apparatus in an attempt to eliminate a former president. As it turns out, Democrats\u2019 despotic tactics to hold power are disturbingly reminiscent of those employed by the authoritarian communists running China. On Saturday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to make a similar move against his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>In now widely seen footage from the Communist Party Congress, Hu Jintao\u2014the former Chinese president and symbol of ideological opposition to Xi\u2014was dragged out of Beijing\u2019s Great Hall of the People. Hu was sitting to the left of President Xi on the last day of the congress until a man in a suit and surgical mask pulled him out of his seat and out of the Great Hall, apparently against his will.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao taken out of the Chinese Party Congress \u2014 apparently against his will. What happened? Hu was China\u2019s top official before Xi. Did he oppose Xi\u2019s historic power grab?<br \/>CNN reporting on the incident censored in China<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/snl7lUhK9P\">pic.twitter.com\/snl7lUhK9P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FridaGhitis\/status\/1583752083605684225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a>  Was Hu Jintao\u2019s Removal a Power Play? <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese state media are reporting that Hu\u2019s removal was due to a health complication, but Hu did not appear to be suffering from any kind of medical emergency as he resisted being pulled out of the Great Hall. Moreover, the Communist Party Congress is a highly rehearsed event, prompting many to suspect the incident was no accident. In televising the physical expulsion of his predecessor, it\u2019s possible Xi orchestrated Hu\u2019s removal to signal his absolute power over China.<\/p>\n<p>Hu is a leader of a political faction within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that supports a freer Chinese economy. The BBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-63358627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that Hu\u2019s presidency between 2003 and 2013 was \u201cseen as a time of opening up to the outside world and increased tolerance of new ideas.\u201d Since Xi has taken control, though, a consolidation of power and the promotion of Chinese nationalism have taken precedence, while Hu\u2019s hope for China to seek global approval and acceptance has fallen by the wayside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Xi has been slowly purging anyone linked to Hu\u2019s administration or political vision for China. According to the BBC, the \u201clast remnants\u201d of political opposition to Xi were removed from power after economic liberals Li Keqiang and Wang Yang were\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-communist-party-congress-closes-cementing-xis-status-core-2022-10-22\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not reelected<\/a>\u00a0to the CCP\u2019s Central Committee at the congress this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The alarming video depicting Hu\u2019s physical removal from the assembly represents a stark contrast between illiberalism and freedom. Upon taking power, elected leaders from free countries with secure elections and stable governments do not persecute their political enemies. Condemning one\u2019s predecessor or political opponent to prison (or worse\u2014death) is the behavior of dictators in authoritarian regimes and third-world banana republics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> American Leftists Adopt Similar Tactics <\/p>\n<p>If one were to claim the U.S. is different from and better than communist China, how would we know it? Let\u2019s compare the facts on this specific sector. During the 2016 election, Democrats and the deep state <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conspired<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one were to claim the U.S. is different from and better than communist China, how would we know it? Let&#8217;s compare the facts on taking down political opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1712302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}