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China and Human Rights
1) China: Freedom to Vote
• Only one party—Communist• Other political parties are illegal • Top leaders selected by party leaders
China’s president is Hu Jintao
2) China: Freedom of speech and the media
• Books, movies, speech, television, newspapers, internet sites that are critical of Communism or Chinese government are banned or restricted.
• The Great Firewall http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1867131
• Tiananmen Square: 1989 Student uprising
Bob Dylan
Wii and other systems…
Avatar
Mohawks
Tiananmen Square
3) China: Family size
4) China: Freedom of religion
• Communism reject all religions. • Party members must be atheists.• Organized religion (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism)
under the control of the government.
Buddhism and Dalai Lama
• Buddhists in Tibet want own nation with Dalai Lama as leader.
• China fully in control of Tibet since 1959. • Dalai Lama escaped to India with help of CIA1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLHvLM114o (seven years in Tibet
Trailer) 2) http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4475224 Tibet
Dalai Lama