YAY China!

China is a very interesting subject to study and there is so much to learn about this ancient civilization all the way to the present. I find it very interesting that this communist country is one of the only nations that we, the United States, do so much business with importing a lot of their cheaply made goods to many different businesses. This is something that i think is a small stereo type, that everything that comes from China is very cheap and not of good quality and even hazardous to peoples health. I found an article online from the website called "Who Sucks?" and it gave a large timeline of goods that have had to be recalled due to health risks and problems that were made in Chinese factories. It is a very long list of recalls and this just makes me think that a lot of companies are just using China for its cheap labor, and paying cents on the dollar for each thing made. Although I feel that this is wrong, China provides an extremely cheap alternative to working in the United States. One thign that caught my eye though was the large amount of milk that was found to be tainted and melamine and was making people very sick. Lower is a photo of Chinese officials searching for the milk that is tainted at a grocery store.

(Image provided by: NY Daily News Feb 8th, 2010)

Another thing that i know about china is that they are still a communist country, and pretty much except for Hong Kong, regulate almost everything. They are a very pro China government, and is very well known to censor anything that would go against their perfect government. One example that we all know about is the Tienanman square ordeal where many students were protesting and the military opened fire on them and killed many of them. The weird thing is, is that no one in china knows about what happened there because the chinese government censored everything, disallowing any information about that happening to be released. Below is a picture that we have all seen before in one place or another is the chinese student standing in front of the tanks in the square in front of the Forbidden city.

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There is another instance of when the chinese government used its power of censorship is when the last winner of the nobel peace prize was thrown in jail for supposedly writing against the chinese government. He wrote about a reform of the governments power in china in 2010 and was given the peace prize, then was thrown in jail as a political prisoner and is still there. I find it interesting that the government can judge something that you write as being treason against the government, and i can probably say that we wont see Xiaobo for a long time. I watched a lot of news on this happening and was both surprised, and not at the same time.

(Video provided by Guardian.co.uk)

Many people in the west supported his views of democracy and thats why he was given the prize, but anything written or said trying to get a new form of government in china i assume is taken as treason.

From all the different shows and news reports that i have seen about China i find the way that things are run have made them a very successful and powerful country that we will see more from in the near future.