By Zhang Tianliang
Epoch Times Staff
Sep 18, 2009

A few days ago, thousands of people staged a protest to get Wang Lequan, the Regional Secretary of the Communist Party of China of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, to step down from his position. Prior to this, Urumqi's Communist Party chief Li Zhi, was fired by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over massive protests by the Han Chinese community in Urumqi. These incidents indicate that the CCP’s hate propaganda has started to rebound onto the CCP.

Since it took over mainland China, the CCP has always used class contradictions to cover up ethnic tensions. After implementing the policy of reform and opening up, the CCP has degenerated into the most evil, corrupt and vicious ‘ownership class.” At this time, if it continues to advocate class contradiction, it will encourage Chinese people to overthrow the CCP itself. Therefore, the CCP’s propaganda turns to nationalism.

Many scholars pointed out propaganda on nationalism is a double-edged sword because it can wake up national identity consciousness of other minority group and ignite a fight to “separate” from the nation. The CCP uses disputes among ethnic groups as a good opportunity to play political tricks and gain benefits from it. Thus the CCP has started to provoke hatred among Han nationals, Tibetans and Uyghur ethnic groups, which creates continuing conflicts.

The CCP’s wishful thinking is to act as a righteous power of maintaining unity of the country to gain support from the Han nation and on the other hand to act as the power of developing the economy and improving people’s living conditions to gain support from minority groups. As a result, on the one hand, the CCP is spending a large amount of money in Tibet and Xinjiang (under the name of “exploitation,” it seized huge amounts of non-renewable resources), on the other hand it has deprived people of freedom of religion and destroyed minority culture to attain control of Tibet and Xinjiang.

Thus, the CCP gained no good impression from either side. Han people are extremely dissatisfied with the lean economic policy and lax punishment of people from minority groups who commit criminal acts; minority groups cannot tolerate the CCP’s policy of eliminating their religion and culture as well as allowing a large number of Han people to emigrate to their region, thus vastly changing the local demographics.

The CCP not only very clearly knows of this dissatisfaction, but keeps conflict alive between ethnic groups. The Tibetans’ protest on March 14 2008 presented a great opportunity for the CCP to lobby Han people against Tibetans and western society. It was also a stimulus injected to the CCP, prior to the Beijing Olympic Games, to keep the CCP alive. Some Chinese who don’t know much about the CCP’s nationalist policy over the years were organized to hold protests overseas to support the CCP.

2009 marks the 60th year of the CCP’s takeover of China, and protests have been flooding across China. The CCP is using the Xinjiang incidents once again to distract people’s attention as they did with the Tibet incidents in March 2009. Unlike in Tibet, where many believe in Buddhism and are against violence, violent rioting broke out or was incited between Uyghur Muslims and Han people. Not only Uyghurs, but Han people were placed in danger. At the time, Han people turned the protests against the CCP.

The CCP is reaping benefit from creating hatred between ethnic groups, which leads to actual clashes between ethnic groups. It also causes the Han nation’s dissatisfaction with the CCP regime. This is what the CCP deserves for its nationalistic policy of “playing with fire”. It is becoming an inextricable knot.