...Influence in Everyday Politics The Chinese political realm differs vastly from liberal democracies that people in the west are familiar with. The statement “in China today, the general public have no political influence” is complicated by a focus on everyday politics. Chinese citizens do participate in everyday politics, although not in the direct way found in democratic nations. The power of social media in China is allowing internet users to express dissatisfaction with the government, even in the face of censorship. The power of social media and its political influence is illustrated through the 2011 Wenzhou train collision case, which ignited outrage from online communities and led to the exposure of corruption amongst government officials. Typically, when a person thinks about the western concept of political influence, voting in a democratic election comes to mind. For the average citizen, their vote represents their voice in politics. If a person is not satisfied with the government or want to voice their concerns, they are able to freely criticize the state or engage in peaceful protests. They may also participate in politics by joining a political party or even forming a new party. The western concept of political influence centers on free speech and acting directly to affect politics. The concept of political influence by the general public in China is vastly different from western norms. The political system in China is not a liberal democracy, thus many foreigners...
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...Progress? The Communist Party of China despite the perceived benefits of Internet freedom has gone to great lengths to censor information and electronic communication of its people. Spending billions of dollars and a staggering amount of manpower, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to filter its Internet causing human rights activists and political dissidents to cry foul. However, the CCP has successfully found an impossible balance between censoring content they deem subversive while taking away the opportunity for horizontal mobilization against the party all the while still taking an approach that doesn’t completely ban access to the internet allowing China to not fall behind other internet oriented countries. Although many argue that electronic censorship of any kind is detrimental to human and political rights at the expense of the regime’s power, the CCP’s approach in selective censorship of the Internet while maintaining the growth of the Internet as a budding industry has proven largely successful. The Communist Party’s recognition of the Internet as one of China’s greatest assets paired with its selective censorship of its content and its users continues to solidify the CCP’s power as the single party of China. Its continuation of censorship bears positive implications for China politically in strengthening national sovereignty, economically in improving economic prosperity, and socially in protecting its user base as China continues on its path to becoming...
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...business opportunities in China as a long-term strategy. Due to its population size and market potential, China has become an attractive market for many USA and multinational companies. But Chinese government had censorship demand to Google that created some problems with opening Google search engine in China. * In 2002 Google was blocked in China. It all happened because of Chinese culture and maybe of political views. Co-founder of Google Sergey Brin began to read a dozen books to know this country. And then Google was restored for unknown reasons but Chinese users faced another problem – censorship. Chinese government very aggressively began to censor Google’s search results. Google censored some historical moments, political topics such as democratic reform, Taiwanese independence, the banned Falun Gong movement and references to the notorious Tiananmen Square massacre of democratic protestors that occurred in 1989. After that the human rights activists protested against Google. Their argument was that Google abandoned it principals in order to make higher profits. * Explanation of implication of issues and problem for affected parties is simple. Google wanted to operate in China due to its economy and market potential and don’t wanted to lag behind of its opponents Yahoo and MSN. And Chinese government due to its political views wanted to censor and maybe control all searching results in the country. Possible solutions. To operate in China, Google firstly had to...
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...E-Mail: leslieauthier@orange.fr Diana Carolina Ramirez R. Matr. No.: 7004479 E-Mail: dianacarolina_puebla@yahoo.de Maya Höpfner Matr. No.: 7003768 E-Mail: maya.hoepfner@googlemail.com Table of content 1 Introduction...................................................................................................... 2 2 The Federative Republic of Brazil .................................................................... 3 2.1 General information on the Federative Republic of Brazil....................... 3 2.2 Brazil’s connection with the European Union.......................................... 4 2.3 Brazil’s financial situation........................................................................ 5 2.4 Brazil’s imports and exports.................................................................... 6 2.5 Brazil’s leading companies ..................................................................... 9 3 The Russian Federation................................................................................. 10 3.1 General information on the Russian Federation ................................... 10 3.2 Russia’s connection with the European Union...................................... 11 3.3 Russia’s financial situation.................................................................... 12 3.4 Russia’s imports and exports................................................................ 13 3.5 Russia’s leading companies .........................................................
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...GIS 3117 Modern China Spring, 2014 Dr. Amy Y. Situ-Liu (Please use Blackboard internal email for your communication with the instructor. In case of an emergency that prevents you from accessing to your computer, please leave your voice mail at 652-4314, and then email me afterward) Orientation: Location: Textbooks (required): China Since 1949 By Linda Benson, Longman, 2nd edition, 2011 China: The Balance Sheet – What the World Needs to Know About the Emerging Superpower By Fred Burgsten and others, 2006 China Road By Rob Gifford, Random House, 2008 Video Programs: All assigned programs are available on “Video on Demand” provided in our library homepage. Most of them are ready for you to review. But since they are online programs, a few may be not available by the times you click the links. If so, just skip that one and watch the others. Please try both “by segment” or “by title” for your search. Course Description: China, the most populous country, is an excellent "laboratory" for the social scientific study of political, economic and social behavior. The Twentieth Century alone has seen many changes in China's fundamental institutions: from imperial courts to military regimes and single-party police states, from rural households to international stock-holding companies, and from foot-binding and slavery to mass movements and democracy protests. The latest development in the last decade has led to the calling...
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...China and India: The Pattern of Recent Growth and Governance in a Comparative Political Economy Perspective By Pranab Bardhan The two largest countries of the world with ancient agrarian civilizations, with many centuries of dominance in the world economy in the past and recently with impressive economic growth performance, draw obvious comparison. Over the last more than sixty years the two neighboring countries having adopted sharply divergent political and economic systems also provide a point of reference in any study of comparative systems. In this short essay we shall first briefly describe their patterns of economic growth primarily in the last three decades and their implications for the massive poverty and inequality in the two countries, and then move on to discuss the nature of governance both in public and private spheres, which shape those patterns. In 1820 the two countries contributed about half of world income (measured in 1990 prices), in 1950 they contributed less than 10 per cent (the preceding century in the case of China and nearly two centuries in the case of India included rather unpleasant encounters with the international powers), and the very rough projection is that in 2025 the two countries will contribute about one-third of world income (China much more than India). In the 1870’s as well as the 1970’s per capita income in comparable prices was somewhat higher in India, but since then China has shot far ahead. Even accounting for...
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...Contemporary China Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713429222 The China Model: can it replace the Western model of modernization? Suisheng Zhao Online publication date: 28 April 2010 To cite this Article Zhao, Suisheng(2010) 'The China Model: can it replace the Western model of modernization?', Journal of Contemporary China, 19: 65, 419 — 436 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/10670561003666061 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670561003666061 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. Journal of Contemporary China (2010), 19(65)...
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...Growing Internet Use in China Reflects Changing Society Internet Use Explodes in China Internet use in China is exploding. According to Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google, China, the growth of the Internet is 40 to 50 percent in the last two years. Today, the number of Chinese using the Internet is greater than the number of Internet users in the United States, and Kai-Fu Lee anticipates that by the end of the year, about a quarter of China’s 1.3 billion people will be online. However, Chinese Internet users tend to be much younger than their American counterparts. In China, the average user is 25 years old as compared to 45 years old in the United States. Some experts anticipated that greater access to information could prompt the Chinese to question their government, but the growing Internet usage seems to have done just the opposite. Many Chinese are now questioning what they perceive to be mistakes and representations by the Western press about events in China. After reports by the Western press about events in Tibet and the Olympic torch relay protests for example, many Chinese were angry and felt that their government was being unfairly criticized. Some actually used the Internet to coordinate anti-Western, pro-China demonstrations. Most Chinese people appear to believe that the market reforms implemented in China have been very successful. They see their economy getting stronger, and more opportunities. Melinda Yu, president of the Foreign Correspondents...
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...05/01/2013 Conflict between China and Taiwan, China-Taiwan Conflict Maps of World We do magic to Maps World Maps North America Map South America Map Europe Map Asia Map Africa Map Australia Map Search USA Map Buy Maps Get Custom Mapping Quote+1 408 416 3459 | sales@mapsofworld.com Home / Taiwan / History / Conflict between China and Taiwan Ads by Google Conflict between China and Taiwan Company Owner Only Advice www.Employersdirect-uk.org Free Expert Help On Employer Issues Call us now on 0844 499 3740 About Us - Employment Tribunals - Free Seminars - Free Advice The China Taiwan conflicts find its history since Taiwan wished to gain its independence since 1949. The China Government is ready to support the economic and political stability in entire East Asia but do not want to come into any compromise where Taiwan's Independence is concerned. While Chinese leaders prefer peaceful means for dealing of the pro pro independence course Taiwan's Taiwan Tours Conflict Tourism China What's New? Check our Blog Taiwan Map Political Map of Taiwan Where is Taiwan Airports in Taiwan Taiwan Lat Long Map Taiwan Outline Map Taiwan Google Map Taiwan Stock Exchange Location Map Taiwan Mineral Map Taiwan Earthquake Map, 2010 Taiwan Rail Map About Taiwan Taipei, Capital of Taiwan Flag of Taiwan Facts about Taiwan Taiwan Independence Day New Taiwan Dollar, Currency of Taiwan Weather Government History People Society Religion Culture Postal Codes Country Codes...
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...Google in China Case Study Introduction On January 12, 2010 Google’s Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, posted an online memo that targeted the Chinese government. The company stated that it had detected highly sophisticated cyber-attacks originating from China and that the evidence suggested the primary goal of the hackers was to access Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The memo further disclosed that Google was no longer willing to censor its search results on Google.cn and it would exit China if its conditions on non-censorship were not met. The problem faced by Google is that, the Chinese government has been determined to control the flow of information on the Internet and insists on removing certain information that it considered politically objectionable from search results. Google’s mission as a company is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, China’s policies on censorship seemed to conflict with several of Google’s core principles. There is also the question; did Google do its homework to thoroughly analyze the Chinese operating environment as it relates to censorship? By 2005, Chinese search engine company, Baidu, emerged as the leading internet search engine in China. A very important piece of information to consider is that, freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not considered inherent rights in the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, to compete with...
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...world is extending to be an Information Age. Due to the expansion, a large amount of sensitive information that governments disagree with is widely and rapidly spread. In order to control the dramatic increase of this sensitive information censorship occurs. According to a report, censorship is defined as “…one of the tools used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web”. (Antonio Lupetti) In many countries around the world, government censors restrict access to certain kinds of material for their citizens such as movies with sexual content, news with political ideas, and violent video games. Based on the latest data, censorship is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population. China, with a population of over 1.3 billion people and 360 million active users of the Internet is by far the nation in which the censors’ activity affects the highest number of citizens (China). It is well known among the Chinese that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all blocked in China because there is too much sensitive information on them. It is clear that since censorship has begun in China, it has hindered China from developing, updating information and limited the freedom of speech. Censorship has been used in China for centuries. According to the Baidu Encyclopedia which is a very popular Chinese online encyclopedia, the extreme censorship first appeared in 1949 when China was under the Communist...
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...adaptation of Mainlander Taiwanese in China. They moved from China to Taiwan in 1949 and back “home” with their descendents in 1990s. By examine the life of seventeen respondents in Dongguan/Shanghai in 2004-2005, we argue that they were in sense of double marginality despite the diversity of the sample. Whilst foreigners regarded China as a new territory to explore more economic benefits, these returnees were more likely to regarded China as a place with sense of belonging, not sense of colonising. However, they found that the real China was different from what they expected before return. They felt being excluded from Taiwan, but they also felt unwilling to participate in China due to this home disillusion. Further discussion on the adaptation of other type Taiwanese in China will be displayed in separated papers. Keyword: return migration, Taiwan, China! 1. Introduction Whilst most migration research focuses on why people move from poorer countries to richer countries and how they overcome the widely cultural gap in migration, there is little research stressing on migration either on the opposite direction or between countries with cultural proximity. The phenomenon of Taiwanese people in China1 provides us a good chance to fill in this gap. It is Ping Lin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. Email address: polpl@ccu.edu.tw 1 The official title of Taiwan today is the Republic of China), which was established in 1911 in Nanjing...
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...POLITICAL AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT Government Overall Since 1949, the People's Republic of China was established in the country by the communists who still govern it today by the Communist Party of China (PCC), whose monopoly on power is guaranteed by the Chinese constitution. The current president is Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao is the prime minister. There are other political parties in the country, though mainly serve to endorse the policies adopted by the PCC. There are signs of political opening, with competitive elections in village and town levels, but these are slim. The Communist Party still maintains effective control over government nominations. Although the Constitution contains rights and individual guarantees, the People's Republic of China is considered one of the least free countries in terms of press freedom and censorship is common for expression of views and information related to the government. China is often criticized by NGOs and other governments due to serious violations of human rights, as in the case of arrests of political activists without trial, forced confessions, torture, mistreatment of prisoners and others. China was then characterized as a country governed by laws and authoritarian policies, communists and socialists. Censorship of political speech and information, including the Internet, is openly and routinely used to silence criticism of the government and the Chinese Communist Party. The government represses the demonstrations from organizations...
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...1.2 Globalization Production 3 2.2 National Differences in Political Economy 4 2.2.1 Political Systems 4 2.2.2 Economic Systems 4 2.2.3 Legal systems 4 2.3 Differences in Culture 5 2.3.1 Values and Norms 5 2.3.2 Languages 5 2.3.3 Hofstede’s Model 6 2.4 Economic factors 6 2.4.1Exchange rates 6 2.4.2 Inflation rates 7 3.0 Conclusion 7 4.0 Recommendation 8 5.0 Reference List: 9 6.0 Appendices 10 1.0 Introduction: This report is concentrate on talking about the dangers and opportunities of New Zealand animal husbandry industry that try to start international operations in China. China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, and has most complex cultures. China leads the world in swine production, the total number of hogs reaching about 454.4 million at the beginning of 2001 (55% of the world's total), as compared with 89.8 million in 1952. The number of sheep expanded from 36.9 million in 1952 to nearly 133.2 million in 2001. Pig raising, often pursued as a private sideline by peasants, is the fastest-growing sector of the livestock industry, and hogs and pork products are becoming valuable export earners. In 2001, China produced 65.3 million tons of meat, ranking first in the world with 27% of the total. Some 12.8 million tons consisted of poultry. Pork production in 2001 amounted to 42.9 million tons (first in the world), equivalent to 40% of global production. (China-Animal husbandry 2010) 2.0 Discussion 2.1 Globalization ...
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...Censorship of the People’s Republic of China 2000 years ago, in Qin Dynasty. The ancient Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang launched the infamous event "Burning of the Books". He burned all the books from the countries he conquered and thousands of Scholars were killed. Why it happened? The reason is simple, Qin Shi Huang wanted to censor any of the information either threat him or his nation. Today, the speed and the scale of the Internet development in China is incredible. However, development always accompanied with troubles. The globe is connected with the Internet. China is in front of a crossroads, a more open Internet society or another "Burning of the Internet"? The rest of the article will discuss the following points. 1. The background of the Chinese Internet censorship 2. Legal basis and requirements 3. Chinese Internet censorship measures 4. Cases of Internet censorship 5. The impact of Internet censorship 1. The background of the Chinese Internet censorship “The 23rd China Internet Development Statistics Report” released by the China Internet Network Information Center, CNNIC, in January 2009, according to the report, as the end of 2008, the number of Internet users in China had reached 298 million people, the number of mobile Internet had reached 117.6 million people. Internet penetration rate is 22.6%. Chinese netizens more than the United States, are the highest in the world. Internet users in China mainly use the Internet to read news,...
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