THE CHINESE COMMUNIST Party's recent high-level meeting—the Fourth Ple- num of the 17th Central Committee—concludedwith a call to "strongly support the leader-ship of the democracy of the people by theinternal democracy of the Party." Giventhe lack of actual democracy in China atany level, this resolution, highlighted inpress worts, suggests that the Chineseparty is seeking a solution to a fundamen-tal problem in its own way. Just like theSoviet Union in its waning years, China isnow grappling with increasing social com-plexity and differentiation, ethnic and po-litical, which threatens the monolithicpower of the Party.
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