Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Conjunction of headlines

From a variety of sources, a variety of news about China. What political connections could your students identify with each of these stories?

  • China Retools Its Government in Efficiency Push

    "China announced Tuesday that it would reorganize the central government by creating five so-called superministries, including one responsible for improving environmental protection. But the plan stopped short of creating a single agency to oversee the contentious issue of energy policy..."

  • China Hands Security to Likely Next President

    "Chinese President Hu Jintao's likely successor and the nation's domestic security chief have been charged with overseeing the last few months of preparations for the Beijing Olympics...

    "Xi Jinping, who is likely to replace Hu in 2012, and Zhou Yongkang, the Party's security tsar, will join top Beijing organizer Liu Qi in the Olympics and Paralympics leadership small group..."

  • Take Aid From China and Take a Pass on Human Rights

    "[A] shifting world order is bearing new fruits for Sri Lanka. Most notably, China’s quiet assertion in India’s backyard has put Sri Lanka’s government in a position not only to play China off against India, but also to ignore complaints from outside Asia about human rights violations in the war..."

  • U.S. Drops China From List of Top 10 Violators of Rights

    "The State Department no longer considers China one of the world’s worst human rights violators, according to its annual human rights report released Tuesday..."

  • China Sticking With One-Child Policy

    "China’s top population official said the country’s one-child-per-couple family planning policy would not change for at least another decade. The announcement refutes speculation that officials were contemplating adjustments to compensate for mounting demographic pressures..."

  • China’s Rate of Inflation Is Highest in 11 Years

    "Consumer prices in China surged to a 8.7 percent annual rate in February from a 7.1 percent rate in January, the fastest pace of increase in more than 11 years,.."

  • Hundreds of monks protest in Tibet

    "Hundreds of Tibetan monks have taken to the streets of Lhasa in the biggest protest against communist rule in almost two decades..."

  • Chinese police teargas protesting monks in Tibet

    "Chinese police fired teargas into crowds of monks who took to the streets of Lhasa yesterday for a second day of protests in the Tibetan capital..."


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