2015年8月16与17日，中国民主运动海外联席会议主办了"第二届中国之路国际研讨会"。来自世界各国、尤其是来自欧美的关心中国民主与人权运动的人士们聚首海牙，广泛交换对中国历史与现状的信息与观点。在众多讨论题目中，尤其对如下两大主题获得基本共识。
一、中国股灾是民主与人权灾难的必然结果
习近平当政以来，又一次试图祭起曾导致中国几千万民众死难（1960-1962）、上亿民众受到政治迫害（反右、文革）的毛泽东血旗--政治上迫害维权人士与异议人士；经济上重新恢复经济集权，因为经济专制是政治专制的基础。新政权的经济政策是，打击和打劫私有企业；扶持和做大所谓的"国有企业"――实际上是当政利益集团的私有企业。因为在这样的企业中，当政者掌控所有的经营管理权、尤其掌控其人事权，以此他们就可以让利益集团分子及其亲属，以各种方式分赃企业盈利，坐吃人民财富。
在利益集团控制下的国有企业，工人苦力，国家贴钱，硕鼠坐享。所以会出现"具有中国特色"的国有企业现象：那些国企老总及其亲属成为千万富翁、亿万富翁，而那些企业却年年亏损。
如何支撑这样的企业？工人的血汗已经榨干，国家也没有这么多资金来无限制地填补这样的财政黑洞。于是，当权者就想到了新招：从股民身上卷款，变相地为这些官营企业输血。近年来，中国的经济在滑坡。正常情况下，股市应当疲软。但在政府的操纵下，所有官媒炒作股市，以欺骗手段诱骗股民，导致中国股市像一头疯牛，畸形地不断飙升。直到今年七月，股市雪崩，下跌30%以上。今年八月，又再度下跌23%多。于是政府出手"救市"，抛出大量国有资金让股市回升。实际上是在股市高峰抛出，在股市低谷收进。就这么一波，多少股民血本无归，倾家荡产。而政府以此卷走股民的几万亿资金。
因为在股市中，中国政府动用了如此巨额的资金，甚至不惜将人民的社会保险基金都投资进去，股灾之后必然引发中国的货币贬值。表面现象是物价上涨，将经济损失转嫁给所有中国人民。
在一个没有民主、没有人权的国度，政府行为没有透明度。股灾之后，政府强令新闻界，在讨论股市时不得将股灾与政府联系在一起。这是一个完全由政府掀起、政府操盘、政府获利的股灾，居然不容许股民问一句：这场股灾中政府扮演了什么角色？股民的合法权利如何获得维护？所以，没有民主与人权，普通民众将永远成为这个政权所代表的利益集团的奴隶和捐款机。因此，没有民主，就无法铲除这些靠奴役民众以致巨富的利益集团；没有人权，全体中国人民的合法权利就无法获得维护。
所以，本届"中国之路"研讨会与会者一致认为，推动中国的民主与人权才是中国人民、包括所有股民获得利益保障、中国经济得以稳定和良性发展的根本之路。
二、民族问题与疆土争端是中国政府转移国内矛盾的双刃剑
中国专制集团将中国经济引入歧途，导致经济灾难、金融灾难、环境灾难。民心思变，民愤日烈。全国的访民潮、民间暴力事件等越演越烈，社会矛盾达到中国历史上空前绝后的程度，"维稳"经费已经超过了国防经费――中国政府已经将13亿中国人民看作比敌对国家更为危险的群体。
为了苟延残喘，转移国内民众对政府的愤怒，中国政府动用所有手段，煽动民族主义情绪，想把人民的怒火转移到其它民族身上，即所谓的"少数民族"问题；转移到中国境外的其它国家去，即领土海疆争端。
如果中国是一个民主和人权的国家，则中国境内的所有地区，即汉民族和藏、维、蒙等民族地区，省、市、区等各级都是直接民选，都是人民自己治理自己的模式。也就是说在民主的中国，所有的区域都是自治的，而不仅仅是五个"自治区"。在全民自治的环境下，各地区之间可以平等地互通有无，经济交往，各民族之间没有根本利害冲突，就如今日的欧盟。但在一个专制的中国，各级政权机构都是专制的，人民完全不能自我治理，全都受到北京政府的政治压迫和经济压榨。这就是产生民族冲突的温床。
中国政府制造和利用这样的民族矛盾，在汉民族中煽动民族主义情绪，引导汉民族把对中国政府的愤火，转移到兄弟民族身上，从而加深了民族之间的分裂。所以，是中国政府以自己的实际行为在制造民族分裂，却罪加到追求民主与人权的兄弟民族精英在搞民族分裂。这样，民族矛盾将会越来越深，延续几代都无法痊合。
在海外疆土的问题上，应理性地对待。在平等、互利、公正和民主的总前提下，通过谈判解决问题，保障边境和平。因为只有在和平的环境下，中国经济以及与国外的经济交流才能安全发展。但中国政府使用同样手腕，愚弄人民，在中国人民心中竖立起一个个敌人，引导人民将愤怒发泄到国外。
没有中国及周边国家的民主与人权，就不可能和平地解决邻国之间的边界争端，甚至可能引发战争。普通中国民众将充当中国当权集团的炮灰而死于无辜。例如中国1950-1970年代给越共巨额援助，并将中国士兵输出到越南充当越南专制集团的炮灰。到1979年挑起中越战争，又将中国士兵逼往中越边境充当炮灰。死难战士们尸骨未寒，中国政府又与越南政府举杯共庆两党友谊，好像什么事情都没有发生。
所以，本届联席会议工作会议与"中国之路"研讨会与会者一致认为：完全理解中国人民的爱国情感，但绝对反对中国政府将之引向纳粹式的民族主义歧路，以转移中国国内的社会矛盾。中共的目的，就是为了维护其政权，维护这批利益集团的非法利益。只有推动中国的民主与人权，才有可能有效地减缓和解决民族矛盾及与邻国的疆土争端；才能避免因为民族矛盾和领土纠纷所带来的战争和流血；才能使中国各民族、以及各邻国和平共处，促进中国以及亚洲的和平与经济稳定发展。
中国民主运动海外联席会议2015年工作会议与第二届"中国之路"国际研讨会
2015年8月
荷兰海牙
The Hague Consensus
August2015
On August16 and17,2015, Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition held the Second China Road International Seminar. From various countries in the world, especially Europe and America, people who are concerned about the democracy and human rights movement in China gathered in The Hague and extensively exchanged information and opinions about historic and current China. Among the many discussed topics, they reached a basic consensus on the following two major subjects in particular.
1. The Chinese Stock Market Crash was the Inevitable Result of the Democracy and Human Rights Catastrophe in China
Since Xi Jinping came to power, he has launched another attempt to raise the bloody flag of Mao Zedong that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people(1960-1962), and the suffering of more than one hundred millions of people due to political persecution(Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Cultural Revolution). Xi Jinping has increased political persecution of human rights defenders and political dissidents. He has resumed economic centralization, using the economy as the foundation of autocratic political tyranny. The economic policy of Xi's new administration is to combat and loot private enterprises, and to support and expand the so-called"state-owned enterprises"-- actually a group of private enterprises belonging to the interest groups of those in power. In these enterprises, those in power control all the management and administration rights, especially the personnel rights; thus they allow the members of these interest groups and their relatives to spoil corporate profits and eat people's wealth in various ways.
These"state-owned enterprises" under the control of interest groups exploit their workers, yet receive subsidies from the state, while the people in power enjoy the profit. Thus we see the phenomenon of state-owned enterprises"with Chinese characteristics": the owners and their relatives of these state-owned enterprises become millionaires and billionaires, yet the enterprises are having consistent losses every year.
How to support these kinds of enterprises? The blood and sweat of the workers have been drained, while the country does not have that much money to unlimitedly fill these financial black holes. Therefore, the authorities have moved to new tactics: to take money from the stockholders, as an alternative to transfusing the enterprises themselves.
In recent years, China's economy has been in decline. Under normal circumstances, the stock market should be weak. However, due to the manipulation of the Chinese government, all official media were hyping the market to lure investors with deception, which has resulted in China's stock market acting like a mad cow continuously soaring in deformity. Finally in July this year, its stock market collapsed in an avalanche falling more than30 percent. In August, it fell again more than23 percent. Then the Chinese government came to the"rescue", throwing in a lot of state funds to make the stock market rebound. Actually it bought the stocks when the market was low and got rid of them when the market was high. Just this one wave has cost many stockholders to lose everything and go into bankruptcy, while the Chinese government swept away several trillion in funds from the investors.
Because the Chinese government spent such a huge amount of money, with even the social insurance funds being invested, Chinese currency will for sure devaluate lead by this stock market crash. On the surface it will cause rising prices, thus transplanting the economic losses to all Chinese people.
In this country without democracy and human rights, there is no transparency in government actions. After the stock market crash, the Chinese government ordered the news media not to associate the crash with the government during any discussion of the stock market. This stock market disaster was completely set off by the government, manipulated by the government, to the end to let the government profit, yet is was forbidden for the stockholders to even ask: what kind of the role did the Chinese government play? How is one to maintain the legal rights of the stockholders? Therefore, without democracy and human rights, ordinary people will always become the slaves and cash dispensers of the interest groups that this government represents. Without democracy, there is no way to eradicate these interest groups that become super rich by enslaving the people. Without human rights, the legal rights of all Chinese people cannot be maintained.
Thus, the participants of the current China Road international seminar agreed that:
To promote democracy and human rights in China is the fundamental necessity to obtain the interests of all Chinese people, including all shareholders, and to enable a stable and healthy development for China's economy.
2. The Nationality and Territory Disputes are Double-edged Swords for the Chinese Government to Redirect the Internal Conflicts in China
The Chinese authoritarian clique is leading the Chinese economy astray with economic disaster, financial disaster, and environmental disaster, etc. Thus the Chinese people want change, with public anger getting stronger and stronger nationwide. The petitioners' tide and violent acts have intensified as social conflicts have reached an unprecedented degree in Chinese history. The Chinese government has to spend more to"maintain stability" than for national defense, for it has seen the1.3 billion Chinese people to be more dangerous than hostile nations.
To hold on to its power the Chinese government uses all means to incite nationalist sentiment, trying to the divert Chinese people's anger against other nationalities; thus stoking so-called"minority" issues inside China, and territorial and waters disputes with other countries outside of China.
If China were a country of democracy and human rights, then all areas within China, namely all regions of the Han, Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian and other ethnic groups would have direct elections at each level representing regions, provinces, cities, districts, etc., in a model of self governance of the people themselves. That is to say in a democratic China, all regions are autonomous, not just the five"autonomous regions" defined by the Communist government. In that total autonomous environment, each region is equal to another, with economic exchange. There would be no fundament conflicts of interest between different ethnic groups, just like in the European Union now. However, in an authoritarian China, each level of government is authoritarian as well. People are unable to govern themselves at all. All people in China are suffering from the political repression and economic exploitation of the Beijing regime. This situation becomes a hotbed to generate ethnic conflicts.
The Chinese government manufactures and uses such ethnic conflicts to incite nationalist sentiment in the Han Chinese, and guide the Han to transfer their anger against the Chinese government towards the other ethnic nationalities. It has deepened the divisions between nationalities. While the Chinese government manufactures ethnic separatisms with their actual behavior, it accuses the ethnic elites who are pursuing democracy and human rights of engaging in ethnic separatism. Such ethnic conflicts will be deepened and unable to recover for generations under this regime.
In regard to territory overseas, we should treat conflict rationally. Under an overall premise of equality, mutual benefit, fairness and democracy, negotiated to settlements of issues will ensure border peace. That is because only in a peaceful environment can the Chinese economy and its economic exchange abroad have a secured development. But the Chinese government uses the same kind of tactics to fool the people, to set up enemies in the minds of the Chinese people, thus to guide their anger abroad.
Without democracy and human rights in China and neighboring countries, it is impossible to peacefully resolve border disputes between the countries, and may even lead to war. Ordinary Chinese will serve as cannon fodder of the Chinese ruling clique and die innocently. Take an example. Once from1950 to the1970's, China provided huge aid to Vietnam, even sent Chinese soldiers to become cannon fodder for the Communist Vietnamese authoritarian clique. Yet in1979, the Chinese government provoked a Sino-Vietnamese war and forced Chinese soldiers to become cannon fodder at the China-Vietnam border. Then shortly after, the Chinese government and the Vietnamese Communist governments were toasting each other to celebrate the friendship between the two Communist Parties, as if nothing had happened.
Therefore, the participants of this current working meeting of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and"China Road" international seminar agreed that:
We fully understand the patriotic feelings of the Chinese people, but are absolutely against the Chinese government that is trying to lead the Chinese down the narrow road of Nazi style nationalism, as a way to divert domestic social conflicts in China. The purpose of the Communist government is to maintain its regime and safeguard the illegal interests of its interest groups. Only by promoting democracy and human rights in China, will there be a possibility to effectively mitigate and resolve ethnic conflicts and territory disputes with neighboring countries, to avoid the war and bloodshed due to these conflicts and territorial disputes; to have peaceful coexistence between the ethnic groups within China, as well as neighboring countries; and to promote peace and stable economic development in China and Asia.
Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition2015 working meeting
The second"China Road" international seminar
The Hague, the Netherlands
