本文作者,乐登(Michael A. Ledeen)是偏向共和党的民间研究机构“美国企业研究所”(AEI)研究员、“中美安全评估委员会”( U.S.-China Security Review Commission)成员。
2002年的文章“从共产主义走向法西斯主义?”(From Communism to Fascism?),指中国正走向法西斯主义。
英文原文转载如下:
From Communism to Fascism? 从共产主义走向法西斯主义
By Michael A. Ledeen
Feb. 22, 2002 12:01 am ET
As President Bush, now in Beijing, gets up close to the rulers of China, he must have conflicting feelings.
We are told that the Chinese have helped us fight terror, which is cause for satisfaction. On the other hand, the CIA has recently revised sharply upwards its estimate of Chinese military power in the near future, which is cause for concern. As he ponders what China is and may be, Mr. Bush might reflect that the People's Republic is something quite unique, and therefore very difficult to understand.
China is not, as is invariably said, in transition from communism to a freer and more democratic state. It is, instead, something we have never seen before: a maturing fascist regime. This new phenomenon is hard to recognize, both because Chinese leaders continue to call themselves communists, and also because the fascist states of the first half of the 20th century were young, governed by charismatic and revolutionary leaders, and destroyed in World War II. China is anything but young, and it is governed by a third or fourth generation of leaders who are anything but charismatic.