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===Document 9===
===Document 9===
Document 9 was leaked by a Chinese dissident journalist who was in turn sentenced to a seven-year imprisonment for "leaking state secrets".<ref>{{cite web|title=Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces seven years in prison for 'leaking state secrets'|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-journalist-gao-yu-prison-sentence-leaking-state-secrets/|publisher=CBS News|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Chris|last1=Buckley|title=Chinese Journalist Sentenced to 7 Years on Charges of Leaking State Secrets|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/world/asia/china-journalist-gao-yu-gets-7-year-sentence.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 April 2015|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=}}</ref> The name of the document, '''Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere''' (also translated as the '''Briefing on the Current Situation in the Ideological Realm'''<ref>{{cite news|title=Tilting backwards|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2013/06/political-rebalancing|newspaper=The Economist|date=24 June 2013|issn=0013-0613|accessdate=}}</ref>) comes from it being the ninth such document issued that year in China.<ref>{{cite web|title=Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation|url=http://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation|website=ChinaFile|date=8 November 2013|accessdate=}}</ref> It is thought that Document No. 9 was issued by the General Office of the Central Committee, and would have required the approval of Xi and other top leaders. ''The New York Times'' reported that it "bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-leadership-takes-hard-line-in-secret-memo.html?mcubz=1 | title=China Takes Aim at Western Ideas |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
Document 9 was leaked by a Chinese dissident journalist who was in turn sentenced to a seven-year imprisonment for "leaking state secrets".<ref>{{cite web|title=Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces seven years in prison for 'leaking state secrets'|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-journalist-gao-yu-prison-sentence-leaking-state-secrets/|publisher=CBS News|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Chris|last1=Buckley|title=Chinese Journalist Sentenced to 7 Years on Charges of Leaking State Secrets|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/world/asia/china-journalist-gao-yu-gets-7-year-sentence.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 April 2015|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=}}</ref> The name of the document, '''Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere''' (also translated as the '''Briefing on the Current Situation in the Ideological Realm'''<ref>{{cite news|title=Tilting backwards|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2013/06/political-rebalancing|newspaper=The Economist|date=24 June 2013|issn=0013-0613|accessdate=}}</ref>) comes from it being the ninth such document issued that year in China.<ref>{{cite web|title=Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation|url=http://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation|website=ChinaFile|date=8 November 2013|accessdate=}}</ref> It is thought that Document No. 9 was issued by the General Office of the Central Committee, and would have required the approval of Xi and other top leaders. ''The New York Times'' reported that it "bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-leadership-takes-hard-line-in-secret-memo.html?mcubz=1 | title=China Takes Aim at Western Ideas |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The document specifically addresses the following issues which it regards as problems using these same terms in the document itself:
# Promoting Western Constitutional Democracy: An attempt to undermine the current leadership and the "socialism with Chinese characteristics" system of governance. (Including ''the [[separation of powers]], the multi-party system, general elections, and independent judiciaries''.)
# Promoting “universal values” in an attempt to weaken the theoretical foundations of the Party’s leadership. (That ''“the West’s values are the prevailing norm for all human civilization”'', that ''“only when China accepts Western values will it have a future”''.)
# Promoting civil society in an attempt to dismantle the ruling party’s social foundation. (i.e. that ''individual rights are paramount and ought to be immune to obstruction by the state''.)
# Promoting Neoliberalism, attempting to change China’s Basic Economic System. (i.e. ''unrestrained economic liberalization, complete privatization, and total marketization''.)
# Promoting the West’s idea of journalism, challenging China’s principle that the media and publishing system should be subject to Party discipline.
# Promoting historical nihilism, trying to undermine the history of the CCP and of New China. (For example ''to deny the scientific and guiding value of Mao Zedong thought''.)
# Questioning Reform and Opening and the socialist nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. (For example, saying ''“We have deviated from our Socialist orientation.”'')
==Dictator for life==
==Dictator for life==