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Title: Human Rights in China: US Foreign Policy Responds


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Human Rights in ChinaUS Foreign Policy Responds
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Communist China
  • October 1, 1949 Mao Zedong announces the
    founding of the Peoples Republic of China

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History of US relations with China
  • 1972 Nixon visits China
  • 1979 Carter visits, restore diplomatic relations
  • 1984 Reagan visits

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Martial Law
  • 1989 President George Bush visits China, praises
    economic reforms and greater acceptance of Human
    Rights.
  • 4 months later hundreds of students are killed in
    Tiananmen Square, Martial Law declared on May
    20th, 1989

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Tiananmen Protest
Victims of brutality lay dead after the
massacre at Tiananmen
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Chinas Human Rights Violations
  • Slave labor
  • Political prisoners
  • Child labor
  • Religious intolerance
  • Coercive family planning
  • Forced abortions, sterilization
  • Death penalty
  • Why violations occur
  • The Chinese constitution and laws provide for
    fundamental human rights, including due process,
    but these are often ignored in practice. (Guilty
    until proven innocent)

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50th Anniversary What Future for Human Rights?
  • As the Peoples Republic of China prepares to
    celebrate its 50th anniversary, many people in
    China are still being denied their fundamental
    human rights.
  • The Chinese leadership must decide whether China
    in the next 50 years will be ruled by law and
    justice and respects its citizens human rights,
    or remain known as a country where serious human
    rights violations occur on a daily basis and
    state officials routinely ignore the law.

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Interesting Facts
  • More people are executed every year in China than
    in the rest of the world put together.
  • Over 60 crimes are punishable by death.
  • From 1990 till the end of the of 1998, Amnesty
    International recorded over 25,400 death
    sentences and over 16.600 executions,

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Interesting Facts (con.)
  • Police often intimidate and humiliate people in
    custody, beat, kick, and use electric shocks on
    detainees, hang them by arms, shackle them in
    painful positions and deprive them of food and
    sleep.

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Humans in China
  • Palden Gyatso, in cuffs.

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Arguments For Trade with China
  • Sanctions deny people goods, and punish the
    people, not the government at fault.
  • Trade has pulled 200 million Chinese out of
    poverty since 1978.
  • Trade will Open China to freedom for western
    religions

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  • Depriving Americans of the freedom to trade and
    invest in China violates their rights to liberty
    and property
  • Would keep millions of Chinese in poverty by
    restricting their right to trade, ironically with
    hopes of promoting human rights.

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  • The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger
    the tides of human progress and peace among
    nations. - Ronald Reagan
  • Using sanctions to punish countries that violate
    human rights is just another way of forcing
    western morality on the rest of the world.
  • Are human rights merely western morals?
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