Guancha: Trump administration officials are using all occasions to viciously attack the Communist Party of China (CPC) and pitting the Chinese people against the CPC. But at the same time, they claim that they side with the Chinese people. What do you make of all this?
Le Yucheng: The hostile remarks on the CPC by some U.S. politicians only expose their ignorance of China and the Party. The CPC has unbreakable bond with the Chinese people, and stands with them rain or shine. The Party's faithful commitment to the people is best described by a famous quote from President Xi Jinping, "For the good of my people, I will put aside my own well-being."
In recent years, CPC members always took the lead to brave danger and disasters to serve the people. When COVID-19 hit the country, over 39 million CPC members nationwide stepped up to fight the virus on the front line. Of the medical workers sent to Wuhan, 80 percent were CPC members.
In the battle against abject poverty, CPC members have been the mainstay as well. Nearly three million CPC members have been selected to serve as Party secretaries or take charge of poverty alleviation in poor villages. Nearly 800 officials responsible for poverty alleviation made the ultimate sacrifice on duty. One of them was Huang Wenxiu, who worked for poverty alleviation in Guangxi and died at the age of only 30.
When floods hit southern China recently, those on the front line of disaster relief were again CPC members. Chen Lu, a CPC member and a fire fighter in Anhui Province, was taken away by floods in a search and rescue operation. He exemplified CPC's ethos with his life - step forward whenever our people need us, come what may. There are numerous examples like this.
The performance of the CPC can only be evaluated by the Chinese people, instead of a few anti-China Americans. Many U.S. scholars have expressed the view recently that under the CPC leadership, the Chinese government has boosted the economy and responded promptly to people's needs, and that the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people support the CPC and feel proud of their country. As recent polls conducted by multiple U.S. institutions have shown, the approval rating for the CPC among the Chinese people is as high as 95 percent. Having such a high level of popular support is very rare, if not unique, for a political party around the world.
In the nearly 50 years of China-U.S. interaction, the CPC has never been an obstacle to bilateral relations. On the contrary, it has been the leading and driving force for mutually beneficial cooperation. I find it difficult to understand why those U.S. politicians get so hostile to the CPC. In the final analysis, it was with CPC leaders that President Richard Nixon had the handshake across the Pacific Ocean. It was with CPC leaders that the United States agreed on the three China-U.S. joint communiqués. White House and State Department officials are dealing with CPC members almost everyday. How could the CPC suddenly become a threat and challenge to the United States? Since the CPC remains unchanged, the problem is with the U.S. politicians.
