習近平主席権力正在集中

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

習近平主席への権力集中加速

1月24日 23時57分

中国共産党は、外交や安全保障政策、それに国内の治安維持などを統括する新設の国家安全委員会のトップに、習近平国家主席が就任することを決定し、習主席への権力の集中が加速しています。

この決定は、共産党が２４日開いた指導部の会議で行いました。
国家安全委員会は、共産党が去年１１月の重要会議で新設する方針を発表していたもので、習近平国家主席は、「現在わが国は、対外的には国の主権などの維持、国内では、政治や社会の安定という二重の圧力に直面しており、これらの対策の指導をより統一的に行うことが急務になっている」と設置の理由を説明していました。
これは、朝鮮半島情勢や、沖縄県の尖閣諸島を巡る日本との対立などのほか、格差の拡大や人権問題、それに民族問題などを巡る国民の不満の高まりに指導部が危機感を募らせ、衝突やテロといった突発的な事案に対処する能力の強化を急いでいることを示しています。
委員会は、外交や安全保障政策、それに国内の治安維持などを統括する機関になるとみられ、習主席はそのトップとして強大な権限を握ることになります。
習主席はこのほか、経済をはじめとするさまざまな分野の改革を進めるために、党内に新設された指導グループのトップにも就いており、習主席への権力の集中が加速しています。

(試譯文)

The Communist Party of China had determined that the PRC Chairman Xi Jinping should take up the top post of a new national Safety Board which encompassed the overall diplomacy and security policy which included the maintenance of public order etc. domestically; the concentration of the power to Chairman Xi was speeding up.

The Communist Party made this decision at the meeting of the Guidance Department opened on the 24th.

The National Safety Board explained the reason for this new installation and announced the plan made in the Communist Party’s major session in November last year to establish it, saying that the PRC Chairman Xi Jinping "is faced with the double pressure in the country: diplomatically, in the maintenance of sovereignty of the country etc. and domestically, in politics and social stability; and there is a pressing need to guide unified measures now". Increasing sense of crisis were felt in the situation in Korean Peninsula, in the confrontation with Japan involving the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture etc. and the expansion in gap on human rights including the question of dissatisfied people involving racial problems etc. This establishment showed a strengthening of the capability to quickly cope with sudden incidents, such as conflicts and terrorism.

It was expected that the committee would become an organization which encompassed diplomacy and security policy, including domestically the maintenance of public order etc. Chairman Xi would grasp the authority at the top post.

In addition to this, in order to carry out reform in various fields starting from the economy, Chairman Xi had also taken the top post of an instruction group newly established in intra-party, and the concentration of power to Chairman Xi was increasing.

     

     My feeling is that unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.