Monday, June 15, 2015

South China Morning Post — People's Daily warns against colour revolutions, blames 'spread of Western ideology'

People’s Daily has launched an assault on colour revolutions, saying the movements are a byproduct of the United States spreading its ideology.
The Communist Party’s mouthpiece yesterday filled its page five with five articles written by scholars exploring the roots of colour revolutions, their negative impacts, and how China might learn from the experience of those nations affected....
Zhang Zhizhou, professor of International Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University, wrote that colour revolutions were an “aftershock” that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. He said blindly introducing Western social reforms led only to chaos.
“There should be exploration of one’s own path and model instead of following the ‘superstition of Western institutions’,” Zhang wrote.
Other articles warned of “a high price to pay for nations that fall into the trap of colour revolutions” and described the movements as “enemies of national security” and “a source of rioting”....
Russia, China and India have all passed laws strictly regulating foreign-funded NGOs.

South China Morning Post
People's Daily warns against colour revolutions, blames 'spread of Western ideology'
Mimi Lau
ht Lambert Strether at Naked Capitalism

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