Prime Minister Wen Jiabao China participates in a Conference of press with Prime Minister David Cameron Britain at the Foreign Office in the Centre of London on June 27, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Carl Court/POOLBy Chris BuckleyBEIJING. Tue, June 28, 2011 2 pm EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - a vain "screen idol" or a prophet of the Chinese political change?
In the wake of suppression of dissent China, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has promised once citizens of China's democracy and human rights. The response of the observers experienced in Beijing Thursday varies of whistles and applause.
None, however, saw any prospect of ruling Communist Party curb its own vast powers before a great shaking policy next year.
Wen prepares to retire at the end 2012, there used to be called much more openly political reform than his more cautious comrades in the Communist party elite.
Most recent appeal of Wen, was in London, is all more after months of arrests and detention of Chinese dissidents, human rights lawyers and demonstrators in long-standing who stole from his sweet message.
"Without democracy, there is no socialism." Without freedom, there is no real democracy, "Wen told an audience at the Royal Society during his visit to Britain."
China is troubled by the corruption, inequalities and other social evils, said Wen, offering a political reform as an antidote.
"The best way to solve these problems is to advance the political structural reform firmly and build a Socialist democracy under the rule of law", he said.
For the skeptics, foggy Wen are a project of pre-retirement vanity, burnishing its reputation without venturing to achieve real change.
"It was screen idol Wen, directed a performance in London," Chen Yongmiao, a lawyer based in Beijing and a commentator, says Reuters, with a put-down (yingdi), often used by Chinese to ridicule public way to heart-on-his-sleeve of the Prime Minister.
Sympathetic observers said that Wen defends a program of liberalization which is beleaguered now but could gain ground after end of 2012, when he and President Hu Jintao resign and make way for the new leaders that could loosen the die-hard policies of recent years.
The two parties expressed their Chinese views on Internet sites and services of microblog that the reports of the speech of Wen spread.
"He may be speaking from the heart, but it does not mean what it, said Chen."
"The title of his speech was"Way of the future of China", and so are the things that he speaks of - democracy, rights - a hundred years in the future, or five hundred years." Today, there are many social tensions suppressed in China, and the company is not prepared to wait so he thinks, "he says.
However, another lawyer based in Beijing and liberal commentator, Qiu Feng, said the criticism is unfair.
"I think that he should be applauded." The Chinese political scene is very sensitive now. Different people want to take China in different directions, and Wen is the (Chief) pointing in the direction, I think that we should take, said Qiu, whose real name is Yao Zhongqiu.
"Yes, it is rhetoric." But the policy of broad rhetoric measure, using words to spell out a goal and create a consensus on it, "said Qiu. "It is what it does."
But Qiu and other well placed supporters said no there was no prospect of a relaxation significantly before end of 2012, when a Congress of the Communist Party will be anointing a new leadership.
Even after the Congress, political détente was not at all a given, they said.
"Premier Wen Jiabao knows he leaves after the Congress, and he has only his rhetoric as a way to set the direction by then, said Qiu.".
NOT SO FAST
Especially since the repression of 1989 armed China off pro-democracy protests, Beijing reviled any notion that he should embrace Western-style democracy.
These past months, Chinese leaders have relaunched this message, fearing that anti-authoritarian uprisings throughout the Arab world could inspire the challenges of their own party. China says its own definition of human rights to give priority to basic needs, such as sufficient food, housing and health care.
Wen has a behavior more sweet as other party leaders, but he has defended the crackdown and its major concepts of amount of political reform in an attempt to rejig, but does not replace dominance of the Communist Party. In London, he was also reprimanded West "finger" over the restrictions on China on human rights.
But the Premier Wen, who has survived the eviction of his reformist boss Zhao Ziyang in 1989, has distinguished himself as a senior official who requested repeatedly for reforms designed to give citizens more say, even if it did not state what changes it promotes.
It is now in the final section of his time in Office, and lacks a following factional in the elite who can give her calls a wider currency. As his power leaks away, Wen will be little more than his words to advance his legacy.
"I think that voices are demanding faster political reforms will grow more urgent and stronger, and Prime Minister Wen is considered these calls," said of the Daozheng, a veteran leader party official and former of the apparatus of control of press of China which has published articles urging support for the appeals of Wen political reform.
"But he also has his conservative critics", which is the end of the 1980s, said in a telephone interview.
"Points of view within the party are not a single, undivided piece of iron and Wen Jiabao represents the partisan forces of gradual but practical reform".
(Reporting by Chris Buckley; editing by Brian Rhoads)
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