Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A964-O281

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A964-O281

Release Date: October 2, 2016

发布日：2016年10月2日

Topic: The New York Symposium on the Prospect of Democracy in China Will Be Held (Radio Free Asia)

标题：中国民主前景纽约研讨会即将召开(自由亚洲电台)

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The New York Symposium on the Prospect of Democracy in China Will Be Held

-- Radio Free Asia

2016-09-30

The Symposium on the Prospect of Democracy in China is being held in New York City in the USA and continues for 3 days. The theme of this conference is "the Political Change and Democratic Prospects in China -- a Game of Justice and Evil, and the Moral Responsibility and Choices of the International Community. The 3 day long conference has various people in attendance and participating in the discussion.

Xia Ming, a professor at CUNY and adjunct professor of political science at the New York University, is hosting of the conference. According to Professor Xia Ming, the first part of the conference will be a discussion session in English, while the second and third days will be in Chinese. The organizers are the China Democracy Forum, co-organized by the City University of New York and Beijing Spring.

Professor Xia Ming said the people speaking at this conference include Wei Jingsheng, Chen Pokong, Huang Ciping, Xiang Xiaoji, Wang Juntao, Yao Cheng, Teng Biao and Chen Xiaoping etc. The themes of the speeches vary, and include "the Interpretation of China's Current Situation", " From Lin Biao's Coup to the Current Dire Political and Economic Situation in China", "Does the Opening of the Second Child Policy Mean the Improvement of the Human Rights Situation for Chinese Women and Children?", "The Role of the Overseas Democracy Movement in the Political Transformation of China", "Chinese Citizens' Rights Defending Movement in the United States" and so on.

Regarding this event, Professor Xia Ming told reporter Bing Ling: "The theme this time is mainly around the democratization in China, because now China is not on the road to realize democracy; on the contrary, it is going backwards. With this background, we wish to raise this question of whether China's democratization is possible or not, and also to show the mainstream society of the confidence of the Overseas Chinese who are pushing for democratization in China. For the past more than ten years, I have participated in some event in New York every year or ever other year. I represent the scholar side. From the point of an organizer, this conference is the largest one. Even from its large scale, one could tell that many people have anxiety and doubt in the current situation and need answers.

Professor Xia Ming made a note of the most important part of the first day of the conference. He said: "The arrangement of this conference has several characteristics, the first is that there is an English conference on the first day. Most of the speakers on the first day are Chinese in America, who will discuss a wide range of topics about China. The speakers include a professor of politics, history and international relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He will discuss the current challenge and thinking from a historic point of view. He is able to stand out in support the democratic cause of China, and take the initiative to voice support to this conference. I hope that there are more scholars and professors like him. There is also a speaker who wrote a book more than 10 years ago which had predicted the financial and economic crisis in China due to its many political practices. The speeches by some young Chinese professors also deserve attention, such as about the democratic progress in China and related international factors due to many problems in the West itself. We must ask if there is any contribution to China's democratic development by the West. Also, there are some discussions of the "unique doctrine" of China from a historical point of view. The conference also invited several representatives of ethnic minorities, who will analyze and discuss democratization from an ethnic and regional perspective.

The above is a report by Bing Ling, a special correspondent of Radio Free Asia, from New York.

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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A964-O281

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A964-O281

Release Date: October 2, 2016

发布日：2016年10月2日

Topic: The New York Symposium on the Prospect of Democracy in China Will Be Held (Radio Free Asia)

标题：中国民主前景纽约研讨会即将召开(自由亚洲电台)

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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中国民主前景纽约研讨会即将召开

-- 自由亚洲电台特约记者冰凌报道

2016-09-30

中国民主前景研讨会将于10月2日在美国纽约召开，会议将持续进行3天。本次会议的主题为中国政治变局与民主前景--正义与邪恶的博弈，国际社会的道义责任和选择。将持续3天的会议请到了各界人士的出席和研讨。

夏明作为纽约城市大学教授以及纽约大学政治学客座教授，本次将担任会议的主办人。据夏明教授介绍，会议的第一部分为纯英文的讨论会议，而第二天和第三天则均为中文会议。会议的主办单位为中国民主论坛，协办单位有纽约城市大学和《北京之春》杂志。

夏明教授介绍说，本次会议的发言人包括魏京生、陈破空、黄慈萍、项小吉、王军涛、姚诚、滕彪以及陈小平等。发言的主题各不相同，比如"中国时局解读"，"从林彪的政变谈政治与经济险象丛生的今日中国"、"放开二胎是否改善中国妇幼人权状况"、"海外民运在中国政治转型中的角色"、 "在美国进行中国公民维权运动"等。

夏明教授介绍这次活动时对记者冰凌说："这次的主题主要是围绕中国民主化的，因为现在并不是在实现民主化的路上，相反的是在进行一种倒退。在这个大的背景下提出的这个问题，中国的民主化到底有没有可能，也是对主流社会显实海外中国人们推动实现中国民主化的信心。在过去的十几年中，我每一两年都会在纽约进行一次活动，我是代表学界。从我组织者的角度来看，这次的会议是规模最大的，从规模上就可以看出，在目前的形势下很多人有焦虑和疑问，需要解答。"

夏明教授也对会议第一天的主要看点进行了预告，他说："会议的安排有几个特点，首先第一天是英文会议。第一天发言的人基本是在美国的华裔，他们将对中国大方面的主题进行探讨。演讲的人包括宾夕法尼亚大学政治学、历史学以及国际关系学教授，他将从历史的角度出发探讨现在面临的挑战以及思考。他代表了有思想，有道义和有责任感的学者，他能够站出来为支持中国的民主事业，主动发声对会议进行支持。我也希望有更多的学者、教授能像他一样。还有一位早在十几年前的书中就已经预测到很多政治做法将会带来的金融危机、经济危机等。还有一些年轻的华人教授的演讲也值得关注，比如中国民主发展以及有关国际因素，由于西方本身就有很多问题，那么西方对中国民主发展到底有没有贡献。再比如从历史学的角度对中国的"独特主义"进行的探讨。会议还邀请到了几位少数民族的代表，他们将从民族角度、地区角度对民主化进行分析和探讨。"

以上是自由亚洲电台特约记者冰凌从纽约发回的报道。

报道的原始链接：

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/bl-09302016105352.html