Teng Biao (滕彪), legal scholar and human rights activist, identifies and analyzes what he sees as a new approach to handling and controlling civil society under the Xi Jinping regime. Teng argues that, beginning in 2013, with the detention of the “four gentlemen of Xidan” who publicly called for assets disclosure, the authorities switched to the Wiping-Out model of control that targets the entire civil society. The aims are: “eliminate all nodes of connectivity in civil society, nip all emerging civil society leaders in the bud, and completely destroy the capability of civil resistance.” Yet, he concludes, the perceived crisis that has prompted the Chinese government to adopt this new approach—namely, vocal citizen activists taking to the street to assert basic rights and call for government transparency—is also the very reason that the approach will not succeed, especially in light of Chinese civil society’s capacity for self-regeneration.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:16:10 +0000
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