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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nyugen Tan Dung is far superior as a reformist politician to the PRC's Wen Jiaboa. Nguyen openly advocates a more democratic system and promotes specific legislation to protect freedom of public assembly and demonstration. In contrast, Wen Jiabao speaks only in vague and sweeping terms about political reform and has done nothing specific to protect PRC citizens' civil rights such as the freedom of assembly. Instead, Wen Jiabao has expressed approval, at least tacitly, of the PRC government's violent persecution of peaceful citizen activists such as the blind villager Chen Guangcheng. So we can see that the PRC party-state is more backward and repressive than the Vietnamese party-state.
Nov 28, 2011 12:05 PM
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