CHINA: Peking professor says reform a dead end

A professor at Peking University, one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in China, has gone out on a limb in recent remarks in Taiwan, denouncing the Chinese political system and saying that he and his colleagues have given up hope in the Communist Party, writes Zhong Yuan for The Epoch Times.

Dr Xia Yeliang, an economics professor, also concluded in the seminar at National Taiwan University on 18 December that the economic reforms of the past 30 years are as far as it is going to go, because the Chinese Communist Party will not willingly relinquish its monopoly on power. There will be no democratic political reform in China under the party, he said: "If the people in China want democracy, the society at large need to pressure the CCP."

He said that the party had meticulously controlled public opinion by monopolising the media in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to a lesser extent. All universities in China were also directly controlled by the party, he said.
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