Analysis
On Thursday, China had brought in a new chairman
named Xi Jinping who took power and started making changes. The citizens of China have been left out of
the process and they have no idea how their leaders are being put into office. “Xi's predecessors Deng Xiaoping and Jiang
Zemin pursued reformist agendas designed to give people modest amounts of
freedom so long as they did not challenge the Communist Party's monopoly on
power.” They stopped the process after
the 2008 Olympics. “He stepped up abuses
of human rights defenders and lawyers, reined in vocal civil society
organizations, broadened controls on Uighurs and Tibetans, and employed legally
baseless tactics such as house arrest to silence critics.” They had made a key decision on amending the
2004 to acknowledge human rights for their citizens. Since that though there has been no sudden
rise in protection policies for their citizens human rights. “In a system that denies ordinary citizens
participation in political decisions, those facing abuses have few places to
vent their anger or seek redress.” The
only solution is for the Communist party to gives up power to the legal system
of the country, this includes the Supreme Court, and even the lower
courts. Without the help of the courts
there will likely be protesting on the streets which will in turn show the
government the matter needs to be addressed.
Summary
In
China, the Communist Party has given aspirations for basic human rights to
their citizens. Every year China has a
process to elect the officials in office but the citizens do not get a say in
who will be elected. This is basically
saying that they have no say and that the government will do, as they want
without any opposition. The most recent case
of this is when Xi Jinping was elected to become a leader. The government says that they are keeping to
the amendment, which gives their citizens human rights, but it seems that they
have taken over the legal system and its Supreme Court. That is why so many
people have started to protest and riot in China and it is not likely to stop
until the government addresses the
problem.
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