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Democratization and Human Rights in China

Democratization and Human Rights in China. Sakuna Eddie. China bullet trains crash accident. CHEN Guangcheng ( 陈光诚 ). - Chinese civil right activist

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Democratization and Human Rights in China

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  1. Democratization and Human Rights in China Sakuna Eddie

  2. China bullet trains crash accident

  3. CHEN Guangcheng( 陈光诚) - Chinese civil right activist - visiting Professor of New York University

  4. Economic Development • Culture Change • Leadership Inclination

  5. Modernization hypothesis: Democratic consolidation correlates to economic level.2

  6. China’s GDP Growth 単位： 兆米ドル (Source: ブルームバーグ)

  7. GDP Forecast in 2050 単位： 兆米ドル (Source: ゴールドマン・サックス経済調査部)

  8. PPP per capital GDP3 単位:RMB

  9. Chinese Government Trust Degree 4

  10. the Open Information of the Government Action

  11. Power of celebrities Profession rally driver Best selling author Singer China’s popular blogger “ 我不认为天鹅绒革命能发生在中国。”( I don’t believe that Velvet Revolution 6 can take place in China.) “中共有8千万党员，三亿亲属，已不能被简单认为是一个党派或一个阶层了。”( The CCP has 80 million members and 300 million people belong to families in which someone has Party membership. The Party is no longer just a political party or class.) “党组织庞大到一定程度，它就是人民本身，人民就是体制本身。”(when the party organization reaches a certain size, it becomes the people itself , and people form the system.)

  12. Power of Mass Media

  13. Premier WEN Jiabao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUpcQSJ0tTE

  14. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Party Congress 公推直选（public recommendation, public election)

  15. Xi-Li ear. (2013-2022)

  16. Problems in China • Environment Pollution issues • Unbalanced population in rural and urban area • Unemployment • Gap between the rich and the poor • “Freedom” to speak out • “Freedom” to use the internet • Corruption

  17. Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. It encompasses social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination.1

  18. ▲ Ask again: what is DEMORCRACY? what is HUMAN RIGHTS? ▲ Is China READY for that? Does China really NEED that?

  19. conclusion • “With the vote in the wrong hands, the wrong people get selected who then manipulate the electorate.” • “Western people are not open-minded about political systems, they can’t accept that other systems might be good.” • Deliberative Authoritarianism

  20. Reference and Explanation • 1 Democracy Wikipedia Retrieve from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy • 2 Yu,L .& Dingding,C., (2012)The washington quarterly. Why China Will Democratize 35.1 (pp.41-63) • 3 International Monetary Found, (September, 2011). World Economic Outlook Database. • 4 Yunhan,Cet.al.,(2008) How East Asians View Democracy., Columbia University Press(p.229) • 5 Global Analysis (2012) Maintain Stability in China. Retrieve from: http://globalanalysis2012.blogspot.jp/2012/10/maintaining-stability-in-china.html • 6 was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989. Dominated by student and other popular demonstrations against the single-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, it saw to the collapse of the party's control of the country, and the subsequent conversion to a parliamentary republic.

  21. THANK YOU Q&A

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