Os intelectuais e a verdade: o caso de Hu Xingdou.

Desde o início dos anos 1990 que o Partido Comunista Chinês tem vindo a co-optar de uma forma sofisticada e eficaz uma boa parte da elite intelectual que poderia colocar em causa o monopólio do poder do Partido. Ao contrário do que aocnteceia nos anos 1980, nestas quase duas décadas que passaram sobre o Massacre de Tiananmen não tem havido um movimento de rebeldia significativa face à linha do governo central. Certamente que os enormes progressos económcios e sociais do país contribuíram para esta situação, mas a fraca voz dos dissidentes deve-se também a dois outros factores: os mecanismos de controlo do exercício da liberdade de expressão e um "acomodamento" ao sistema em resultado da significativa melhoria das condições de vida de muitos intelectuais.
O caso de Hu Xingdou - e de outros- é diferente. Professor no Beijing Technology Institute é uma voz dissonante que é tolerada pelo sistema. Num artigo publicado no United Morning Post de Singapura faz um apelo aos intelectuais:

“In the 80s of last century, Chinese intellectuals paid much attention to politics. They went through all kinds of hardships during the “Great Cultural Revolution” period, so they had the desire to speak out. After 90s, most of intellectuals got their vested interests. In order to protect their benefits, most of them chose to tell lies or keep silent, never to say supervising the power or criticizing. At present, more intellectuals are indifferent to the society. They only care about their daily life".

“There are still a few conscientious intellectuals in the society, they are continuously shouting in support with the disadvantaged group, making suggestion and offering advice for the nation. The cruces of China’s further development are to look for the problems, to face squarely to the problems, and to solve the problems according with our national conditions. That we probe into these problems is not to cavil or nit-pick, not ill-intentioned to expose the darkness, not to direct to our government, never to say creating disturbances. We just want to be loyal critics of social problems during the modernization process of our nation. Because only in this way, my true love on my great nation could be reflected; only in this way, the great exploit of modernization could be helped; only in this way, China could be urged onto a healthier way of development".

Hu Xingdou : Chinese Intellectuals Should Tell Truth for The Whole Nation