Survey: 'No freedom in Tibet, China only slightly better'

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Survey: 'No freedom in Tibet, China only slightly better' | Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Jan30, 2015) – North Korea and Chinese-ruled Tibet were among the "worst of the worst" while China and Laos were only slightly better, said the US-based rights NGO Freedom House in its annual survey of political and civil liberties in 2014.

The survey report, "Freedom in the World 2015", published on Jan 28, said North Korea and Tibet were included in the "worst of the worst" 12 countries or territories in the world because they received the lowest possible score of 7 in Freedom House's ranking scale of 1-7 in each of the two categories measured by the rights group: political rights and civil liberties.

China and Laos have each scored 6 in civil liberties and 7 in political rights, and were therefore only slightly better. On China, the survey said the situation worsened in 2014 and was marked by intensification of the "harassment of previously tolerated civil society organizations, labor leaders, academics, and state-sanctioned churches" while "Communist authorities also tightened China's sophisticated system of internet control."

The survey report acknowledged that Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign had netted some senior officials, but pointed out that the crackdown "remained selective and ignored the principles of due process," and was "compromised by an intensified crackdown on grassroots anticorruption activists and other elements of civil society."

On Xinjiang (East Turkestan) the report said that China's "harsh state repression" of Muslim Uyghurs appeared to have triggered "an escalating cycle of radicalization" that resulted in deadly attacks attributed to Uyghur extremists. "The government responded with heavy-handed collective punishment and more intrusive restrictions on religious identity," the report added.

The report assessed the level of freedom in 195 countries. Of them 89 were rated "free," 55 "partly free," and 51 "not free."
 

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Freedom is a tabooed word in China.
 

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Freedom is a tabooed word in China.
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to Tiananmen Square"
 
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All the chinese i talk to are happy here in the state. its selective freedom, No free tibet(most chinese dont care about it anyway, some tibetan dont even care), NO free election(most chinese are more care about making money), No tiannmen square 1989(most dont even know the event or care). everything else is fair game, pollution, corruption, economy etc etc, you can protest all you want. there is a reason most chinese support the government even though they dont like some its decision, and thats because the decision make by government affect MOST chinese. thats the reason why arab spring never take place, because most chinese care more about economy than free tibet/free election.
 

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The reason why the Chinese are lacklustre about what the Govt does is because of their deeply ingrained psyche that is historical.

It is the philosophy that is enshrined in the Theory of Legalism.

Legalism and Chinese Philosophy

In contrast to Taoism's intuitive anarchy, and Confucianism's benevolence, Legalism is a Classical Chinese philosophy that emphasizes the need for order above all other human concerns. The political doctrine developed during the brutal years of the Fourth Century BCE (Schafer 83). The Legalists believed that government could only become a science if rulers were not deceived by pious, impossible ideals such as "tradition" and "humanity." In the view of the Legalists, attempts to improve the human situation by noble example, education, and ethical precepts were useless. Instead, the people needed a strong government and a carefully devised code of law, along with a policing force that would stringently and impartially enforce these rules and punish harshly even the most minor infractions. The Ch'in founder based his rule on these totalitarian principles, and had strong hopes that his government would endure forever.

The founder of the Legalistic school was Hsün Tzu or Hsün-tzu. The most important principle in his thinking was that humans are inherently evil and inclined toward criminal and selfish behavior. Thus, if humans are allowed to engage in their natural proclivities, the result will be conflict and social disorder. As a solution to this problem, the ancient sage-kings invented morality. Since morality does not exist in nature, the only way of making humans behave morally is through habituation and harsh punishment (Lau 120). Hsün Tzu, much like the Italian political philosopher Machiavelli, draws a clear distinction between what pertains to heaven and what pertains to man. Later Legalist thinking influenced Chinese political theorists like Tung Chung-shu, who believed in a rigid mathematical proportion in social arrangements.

Even though both Confucianism and Legalism called for governmental hierarchy and adherence to tradition, the difference between the two schools is that Confucianism advocated ruling benevolently by example. It possessed an optimistic view of human potential. (Mencius is often held up as a contrasting example of a Confucian philosopher in opposition to the legalistic doctrine of Hsün-tzu). The difference also appears starkly in the imagery of each philosophy's writings. The dominant imagery in Legalism's writings is of forcefully straightening or unbending twisted tree limbs so that they grow perfectly straight, or using hot irons to burn the tree limbs so that they will grow in the desired direction.

https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/chinese_legalism.html
 

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