Political Repression in The People's Republic of China - Position of The PRC Government

Position of The PRC Government

The Government of the People's Republic of China has argued that its concept of "Asian values" is that the "welfare" of the collective should always be put ahead of the rights of any individual whenever conflicts between these arise. It claims that there is a responsibility of the government to design, implement and enforce what it calls a 'socialist harmonious society' and a People's Dictatorship

The Communist Party of China and its affiliates make the claim that in some cases it is necessary to force individuals to make sacrifices in their rights for what the Government and ruling party perceive as the wider, allegedly more important requirements of their society. It claims that a strong, powerful, authoritarian government is required in order to regulate what they have labelled as the 'potentially conflicting interests of the public'. PRC official statements have argued that their principle of a 'People's democratic dictatorship' is, in the CPC's opinion, an apt measure to enforce the compromises they deem necessary to counter these conflicting interests. People with pro-CPC perspectives have expressed their highly controversial and internationally disputed belief that Governments with constitutionally determined and restricted authority who grant their citizens the degree of freedom and liberty present in most free nations would, in their opinion, fail to take on such a responsibility, although such an occurrence has failed to occur at a large scale in democracies (e.g. Canada, the Republic of India, the United Kingdom, etc.) and international organisations such as the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation generally support democracy, whilst criticising authoritarian perspectives, like that of the PRC, and totalitarian perspectives like that of North Korea, a somewhat major ally of the PRC.