China has had a rough go of things over the past century. If today’s democrats ignore the values of the Republic of China because of the so-called “Dark Sun Yat-sen” trend secretly started by the Chinese Communist Party, their enemies will be happy and their friends dismayed. The Beiyang period left behind two concepts that can be used by future generations: the parliamentary cabinet system and the federal system (that is, local autonomy guaranteed by the constitution). The Kuomintang period had human-rights protection clauses in the draft constitution. The highlights of both periods were included in the “Constitution of the Republic of China” through Zhang Junmai’s efforts in 1946.
BY: Ding Yi
In recent years, Sun Yat-sen has been criticized by some liberals among Chinese intellectuals. His policy of allying with the Soviet Union, and tolerating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is extremely controversial. Some people blame Sun for the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and some even believe that he had become communist himself in his later years. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen’s death, this author wrote a paper in response to the these claims of more than 20,000 words entitled “Rejecting Communism — An Analysis of Sun Yat-sen’s Thinking and an Evaluation of His Policies”
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