The communist dictatorship ruling over mainland China has a new
centrally planned plot in the works, a controversial scheme that seeks
to force hundreds of millions of farmers from rural areas to
regime-dominated mega-cities being built across the nation. According to
news reports, much of the land is being seized by force as the Chinese
Communist Party works fiendishly to pack people into shoddy
cookie-cutter buildings and cities sprouting up all over the country.
More than a few analysts, of course, have cited former Chinese dictator Mao Tse Tung’s central planning schemes, which
killed
tens of millions of innocent people through starvation and even
outright murder. While the late communist tyrant was obsessed with
forcing “industrialization” on China from the top down, the regime’s
newest crop of autocrats is similarly determined to foist what is dubbed
“urbanization” on the Chinese.
It appears increasingly clear
that the vast rural population will be forced to submit and “urbanize”
whether they like it or not — all for their own benefit, of course, the
regime and its propagandists insist. The latest development, though,
follows decades of centrally planned disasters triggered by Communist
Party plans to redesign society.
Among the worst was the murderous “
Cultural Revolution,”
a program started by mass-murderer Mao designed to centralize and
solidify communist control by attacking traditions, vestiges of the
market system, and especially dissidents. Another tragedy brought about
by the regime's scheming: the so-called “
Great Leap Forward,” which was supposed to modernize the country away from its agricultural roots but actually led to the “
Great Chinese Famine” and tens of millions dead.
According to a
report in the
New York Times, the latest communist plan aims to relocate some 250 million rural people into urban areas over the next 12 years. The U.K.
Telegraph, meanwhile,
reported
separately that around 400 million Chinese from the countryside were in
the regime’s crosshairs to be corralled into sprawling new centrally
planned cities being erected all across China. Bloomberg Businessweek
said
about half of China’s rural population of 650 million would be
relocated by “nudging, urging, and sometimes forcing farmers and their
families to settle in China’s cities.”
News reports about
the effort in establishment publications have largely been focusing on
relatively trivial potential problems stemming from the scheme:
unemployment, pollution, slums, pensions, and other matters. Most of
them contain quotes from people celebrating their new lives in
regime-run cities, though a few quote people who were forcibly evicted.
However, buried deep within the articles, the truth about what is really
going on becomes more apparent.
For example, about half-way into the recent report by the
New York Times,
which has long been criticized for sugar-coating or even concealing
communist atrocities, readers find out that the plan will essentially be
implemented at the barrel of a gun. “Efforts have been made to improve
the attractiveness of urban life, but the farmers caught up in the
programs typically have no choice but to leave their land,” the paper
admits.
Of course, the dictatorship’s “constitution” states that
all land in China is owned collectively — in other words, the regime
calls the shots and property rights, at least as Americans know them,
are not a barrier to the grand scheme. However, as Beijing and its
lower-level minions across the country work to kick farmers off the land
they farm, unrest is growing, and conflicts between authorities and
farmers are becoming increasingly frequent.
In a 2011 survey
cited in various media reports, a U.S.-based organization known as
Landesa Rural Development Institute found that almost 45 percent of
Chinese villagers said regime functionaries had seized or tried to take
their land. “There’s this feeling that we have to modernize, we have to
urbanize and this is our national-development strategy,” Landesa China
director Gao Yu was quoted as saying. “It’s almost like another Great
Leap Forward.”
Amnesty International, meanwhile, reported last
year that at least 41 Chinese people had set themselves on fire from
2009 to 2011 to protest the widespread confiscation of land and
property. The real numbers are probably much higher, but the
dictatorship enforces an Orwellian censorship regime that aims to
prevent the world and the people of China from knowing what the
communist despots are doing.
“The problem of forced evictions
represents the single most significant source of popular discontent in
China,” the U.S.-based human rights group warned in its report. Under
the new plan, however, the long-simmering outrage is likely to keep
growing as the repressive regime gobbles up ever-greater quantities of
land while dislocating hundreds of millions of people.
Unsurprisingly, Beijing, its legions of propagandists, and its Western apologists all claim that the “Great Uprooting,” as the
New York Times
put it, will benefit China and the victims of forced re-location.
“Urbanization will usher in a huge amount of consumption and investment
demand, increase job opportunities, create wealth for farmers, and bring
benefits to the people,” the dictatorship’s new “Premier,” Li Keqiang,
announced at a press conference.
Lower-level functionaries for
the regime echoed those claims in media interviews. Vice director Li
Xiangyang, with the dictatorship’s “Institute of World Economics and
Politics,” for example, argued that forcing farmers into cities would
force them to consume more. “If half of China’s population starts
consuming, growth is inevitable,” he claimed. “Right now they are living
in rural areas where they do not consume.”
Another argument advanced by proponents of the radical plot —
described by the leftist U.K.
Guardian
as “the biggest and fastest social movement in human history” that is
“turning Chinese society on its head” — is the notion that farming could
become more efficient and “sustainable” if small farms were eradicated
and replaced by massive operations. The regime’s “premier” made similar
claims about the plan, estimated to cost upwards of $5 trillion.
Also
part of the agenda is enforcing more so-called “sustainability” and
pseudo-environmentalist policies on China — a highly polluted nation
thanks in large part to communism, central planning, and a lack of real
property rights. While a controversial United Nations scheme known as
Agenda 21
has so far largely stayed out of the limelight in relation to the
Chinese regime’s latest plan, the similarities between the UN’s
planetary vision and the “urbanization” plan are remarkable.
To
analysts who have followed China, the UN, so-called “sustainability,”
and the role of the Western establishment in all of it, however, the
communist autocracy’s new plot is hardly surprising. Billionaire banker
and self-styled globalist David Rockefeller, for example, wrote fondly
of Mao’s mass-murdering agenda as early as the 1970s. “The social
experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most
important and successful in history," he claimed in a 1973 piece for the
New York Times.
Other globalist pseudo-environmentalist advocates for the UN, sustainability, and the Chinese regime include people like
Maurice Strong,
former Earth Summit boss. Twenty years after the original 1992 Earth
Summit, a senior Chinese Communist Party member chaired the UN
Conference on
Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Beijing’s latest “Five Year Plan” is also
filled with “green” references.
While
only outlines of the Chinese “urbanization” plan exist publicly at the
moment, analysts say more concrete information on how hundreds of
millions of farmers will be herded into cities should emerge after the
Communist Party’s “Third Plenum” meeting in the fall. The autocrats have
reportedly asked the
World Bank to help create “sustainable” proposals to “urbanize” the hundreds of millions of people.
What
is almost certain at this point, however, is that, like all centrally
planned efforts to restructure an entire society, Chinese people — and
especially the peasants — can expect extra doses of misery and
brutality. Forced evictions,
like forced abortions, already run rampant in China. There is little doubt that the “urbanization” scheme will make it worse.
The dictatorship ruling from Beijing has already developed a reputation as among the most repressive and
barbaric in
the world — and even throughout human history. Despite Rockefeller’s
claims of “success,” the coming decade will undoubtedly see countless
additional crimes perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party in its zeal
to uproot innocent citizens to suit the grand designs of their rulers.
Whether justice will be served, however, depends on how the people of
China react.
Photo of Shanghai skyline
Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American
, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at
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