Read this BBC article chronicling the fight against corruption in China by the leader of the communist party and Chinese president Xi Jinping and answer the following questions.
1. What are the motivations behind his apparent assault on corruption within the Chinese government?
2. Do a little more research. Do you think his campaign against corruption is genuine? Why or why not?
3. What should be a higher priority for the Chinese government, attacking corruption within their ranks or shoring up the human rights abuses by the government? Or do the two go hand in hand?
4. Do you think the Communist party will ever address the human rights abuses by the government or will suppression always be a part of any communist regime (specifically the Chinese regime)? In other words, do you think a communist government can, by focusing on economic control, allow basic human freedoms? Will outspoken dissent against the party ever be allowed? Do they need to 'let go' if their communist ideology to ensure human rights and freedoms for all of their citizens? Why or why not?
5. Do you think this is simply a ploy by the Communist party to win over citizens to the communist cause or is it to further consolidate their power by jailing or otherwise tkaing powerful government officials out of the equation? Or is it a little bit of both? Provide evidence (either from the book or other news sources) to back up your answer.
1. The motivations behind his apparent assault on corruption will be to achieve his immediate political aim. He wants to try and remedy the inefficiencies in the monopoly party and the state that the party runs.
ReplyDelete2. I think in the beginning it was genuine as he only targeted high government positions that were deemed as corrupt. Now, he is widening his approach and includes all institutions in the Chinese state.
3. I think human rights abuses should be the higher priority as the people are being denied the right to practice religion and freedom to economic opportunity.
4. Suppression will always be a part of any communist regime. Yes, just look at most of the business executives who have a lot of money and basic human freedom, except the freedom of free speech. No, nothing against the party will be allowed.
5. They already won the citizens over to the communist cause, due to the Soviets during the Cold War. They just want their power to be felt from the poor rice farmer to the rich real estate tycoon.
#2. So is it no longer genuine because it has increase in scope? You need more than this if you want credit.
ReplyDeleteGenerally you need more detailed explanations for your responses. Two sentence response are not going to get you credit.