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beth gourleyProvides a perspective from his conversations with Chinese during his month of travels in 2006. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldaffairsjournal.org%2FSpring-2008%2Ffull-PJ-China.html
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Freedom House rates China as “Not Free.” On a scale of 1 to 7—where 1 is as free as human nature allows and 7 is completely otherwise—China scores 6 on civil liberties and 7 on political rights.
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mere increase in China’s prosperity must mean that more Chinese have greater wherewithal to exercise some aspects of free will.
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Certainly the Chinese are more free now than they were during the Great Leap Forward, when millions were constrained by starving to death. And the Chinese are freer to go about their business than they were during the Cultural Revolution, when there was no business to go about.
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Freedom and democracy are abstract
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what I have is a survey of “the tacit consent of the governed.”
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I talked to the kind of people who are necessary to the advocating of freedom and democracy but who, so far, aren’t advocating it.
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listen to what they don’t say.
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That’s no surprise,” Tom said. “Tiananmen Square is where the abdication of the last emperor was proclaimed in 1912. It’s where the student demonstrations, which led to the formation of the Chinese Communist Party, were held in 1919. It’s where the Japanese occupation government announced its East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, where Mao declared victory over the Kuomintang in 1949, and where a million Red Guards swore loyalty to Mao during the Cultural Revolution. When the Chinese see a bunch of people gathering in Tiananmen Square, they don’t go all warm and fuzzy the way we do. The Chinese think, ‘Here we go again.’”
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