The Future of Freedom

(Lihua) Again, the unwillingness of the Chinese to retaliate against established authority becomes increasingly evident, and can also be traced back to Confucianism. It is important to the Chinese that they maintain the order that has been put into place, simply because it acts as the basis on which harmony can grow. The Chinese do not generally think of the government as a system that they can change if they actively participate in it; but rather, if they do actively participate, it is usually for the good of their country and for the preservation of the political system that has already been put in order. This idea stands as a stark contrast to the democratic attitude of the American, whose involvement in the political system is usually used only as a means through which to lessen the grip of the government on the people, or to ensure that what grip the government does have is benefiting the people the best that it can.

Our world is a rich and amazing environment with a vibrant past, present, and quite possibly future, and hundreds and thousands of years ago, we humans took it upon ourselves to record the events of importance that happen over time. However, each person has their own unique perspective, influenced by experiences, childhood, belief systems and more, and each of these aspects of our personality affect how we view and record historical events. It is inevitable that we will take sides -- it’s what people do. Still for the sake of history, historians try to remain objective. However, sometimes people want opinions. In these cases, experienced persons might publish professional, personal beliefs about an important historical or political event.

At first these plans along with an extremely ingenious propaganda campaign stirred great optimism and productivity within the Chinese people, but as years went by the initial flare and excitement went out and few of these promises, reforms and goals had been reached. In some cases the promises were lies. The real actions of the Communist party showed quite a different picture than the lie of democracy that it was feeding the people. The new government never was a democratic one. As a matter of fact it was a dictatorship controlled by the China’s Communist Party (CCP). Throughout the years the communist government consistently and cruelly suppressed any attempts for the country’s democratization.

Hong Kong and Taiwan have claimed independence from mainland China, but political concerns are arising. Since the ruling class controls the state power, China sought its own interest and define its interest as the interest of the nation-state. Liberals would argue that Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan should be respected and allow them to self-govern. Even though, China wants to gain all forms of power with trying to get ahold of these countries, it will be more of a benefit to let them self-govern and try to work together. Chinese scholars began to engage the more orthodox intellectuals in the debate over china’s interest in the 1990s. Yet, according to Qin, he would argue that China was trying to establish somewhat of a liberalism concept. Qin could have this approach since China’s most important national interest was economic development and the most cost efficient way to realize that was from China to take under their power Tibet, Hong Kong, and

China has been the biggest economic structure for quite along time, but there are horrible reasons for these, and these decisions are made by the people 's republic of china. The people 's republic is China 's government, and they make all the decisions.A dystopian society is an unbalance in a nation about the people and the government; such as china, the people 's republic of china, or their government, makes many decisions that have affected their country. The three points one can analyze through researching the topic of dystopian societies are the influence of the government, the impacts and change the people 's republic made on china, and the how literature can be used to educate people about the problems in a dystopian society and the progression toward inequality.

As an effect from the civil war, the Chinese has changed in many ways, and when inspecting these changes, one can see that a lot of these changes have helped turn China into a dystopian society. As a result from the civil war in China between Communists and Nationalists, and the Communist victory, China has remained a single-party with Communists in control. The Chinese government also supplies their citizens with very little personal rights and freedoms, castigating many who oppose them. Also, China’s government works in way that in China, one’s personal relationships would matter much more than one’s position in the politburo, the main group of decision makers. To add on, there are multiple parts to this government that do do different things,

America! The great land of opportunity! What exactly makes America what it is today? Throughout the many years that this country has existed no one could really decide what being an American meant. When we consider the famous writings of the “Bill of Rights”, “Four Freedoms”, and “I hear America singing” it is clear that an American is someone who welcomes and accepts Freedom, Equality, and Diversity.

One of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill said : “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” May be he should have seen modern Chinese communism to moderate this passionate rhetoric. If we try to contrast two opposite governmental models like those of the USA and China, we will see that differences between them are not so obvious, as they might seem. American electoral democracy and Chinese communism are different in terms of legitimacy, self-correction and way to power.

Democracy has become the most widespread political form of government during the past decade, after the fall of all its alternatives. During the second part of the 20th century, the 3 main enemies of democracy, namely communism, fascism and Nazism, lost most of their power and influence. However, democracy is still only to be found in less than half of this world's countries. China with a fifth of the total population "had never experienced a democratic government" and Russia still doesn't have a well established democracy. By adopting a democratic perspective, 3 types of governments emerge, non-democratic, new democracies, and old democracies, and all have a different challenge to overcome: either to become democratic, to "consolidate"

Ruled by the Chinese Communist Party for more than six decades, China remains a near authoritarian state, which violates numerous human rights in accordance to the U.N.’s human rights conduct daily, including freedom of expression, association, assembly, and religion. The unjust actions of the communist government is apparent to even to those who see it from the outside, the Chinese government continues to lie to its people about the state of its country and how “stable” they seem. In reality many reforms need to occur in order for the Chinese government to revert to a more humane state and until then china will remain a large enemy of human rights activists and a more equal country.

Throughout history we have seen staggered periods of rising global democracy. Specifically The third wave is seen as a time of soviet communist satellites and curtain countries turning democratic. We see great success in democratization in the more western European former soviet states. Often times these transitions were remarkably peaceful as in the many colored revolutions. One case that stands out as an example of a failure to democratize is within China. With many communist states questioning their governance it was natural for Chinese citizens to express these same idea concerns. What we see though instead of the European style peaceful transition is a small scale political movement

Surprisingly, China’s new leader, Deng Xiaoping, initiated new economic reforms. He freed the Chinese market and opened it to the west, a strange move coming from a communist party. Such an act raised the public’s hopes for political reforms, in which Wei Jingsheng, a human activist, found it dubious. Nevertheless, the economic reforms triggered a series of protests in 1989--

Thorton presents a democracy emerging within China, growing around the CCP and gaining importance, without penetrating the highest level of the central government. He begins by pointing to the rural villages; while the process is flawed, there is an inclination towards democracy. Villages elect local leaders in “fair and competitive” elections, in some villages, anyone can run for office. This initiative was instituted in the interest of having competition and transparency. Village, city, and county elections have proven to be the first step towards democracy. While the party has retained control, there have been efforts to introduce competition and selection within the party. Thorton then points to the legal system, and its rising quality

(Porter, 1990) A stable and strong government is crucial in this phase, as it ensures continuity of decision making. The World Economic Forum ranks China 8th worldwide in macroeconomic stability (World Economic Forum, 2009). Unlike many western societies, whose frequent elections and wide range of varying values within the political system imply the risk of policy changes, China has but one all-embracing party, the CPC, guaranteeing a high level of stability.

Political outlook in china is stable due to a one party system and there is almost no opposition to the ruling party and its constant reform on its political systems. By reforming on the political system, it has greatly improved the nation’s development such