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To: ---------- who wrote (1386)	3/11/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2951

Doug: I know most of people in this country and in Europe put China and Indonesia in the same category in terms of political regime. However, I think they are fundamentally different. Suharto runs the country like his own house, well almost. Just one simple example, Suharto has put himself on Indonesian stamps God knows for how many years already, while Mao, and any other high-ranking Chinese officials, have never done that when they were alive. The Chinese stamps with Mao's picture on it was only published after he has dead, and suggested by members of Central Committee. As a matter of fact, ever since 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came into power, there was a Party Resolution that NO ONE can ever name a street after himself or put his own picture on a national stamp, or make a memorial coin until after he passes away. China has been run by the Political Bureau, and people in the Bureau do express different opinions. Even if Mao could not make the whole Political Bureau followed him, and that was why he started the Cultural Revolution. Of course, he did not expect it would be out of his own control. To the contrary of what many people believe, up to the Cultural Revolution, the CCP was among the least corrupted Party among all kinds of political entities or regimes in the world. It cleaned itself and its members by launching one after another political movement. Almost no high/middle ranking CCP officials used their power for personal interest before 1966, including got a good job for their children or things like that because they did not want to be the target of the next political movement. Believe it or not, mass political movement can punish a human being much severer than a legal system. I say this because of my personal experience. The corruption has become a problem only after 1978, when the open-door policy has been adopted and for sometime now it is almost out of control. And like what I said, as long as there are people like Zhu who are in power, there is hope. Just my own opinion. Best regards.