CCP's Decision to Bring In Entrepreneurs

In his article, Guoguang Wu described the Chinese Communist Party's decision to allow entrepreneurs to become party members as both an internally and externally expedient move.

He wrote: "It is perhaps correct to see an embracing of capitalists in Jiang's (Zemin, 江泽民) speech, but it is also correct to say that it is, politically, a bear's embrace in order to nourish itself, and internationally, a move to join with national capitalists ... against foreign and capitalists ..." (Guoguang Wu, "From the July 1 Speech to the Sixteenth Party Congress: Ideology, Party Construction, and Leadership Transition", in "China's Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation, Ed. David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan)

Maybe my previous training had made me very graphic. But after reading about the reference to a "bear's embrace", the image that was conjured in my mind was that of a grizzly bear with the body of a bear and yet the face of Jiang.

In the image, the bear-Jiang monstrosity was hugging a pot of honey labeled "entrepreneurs" and had a victorious/triumphant smile on his/its bespectacled (large black framed glasses) face.

Hmm, I really should get that image out of my head, ASAP.