Behind the Wall-China Video- 中国 William Kai Stephanos 中国

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民主中国 DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ----------------- Beijing Faces a Fresh Legitimacy Test--------- For Asia Times, ---------Verna Yu looks at questions over the legitimacy of the CCP on the eve of the Peoples Republics 60th birthday:--------- At the end of the annual plenary session of the powerful Communist Party Central Committee last week, it candidly admitted that many problems threatened its political standing, including rampant corruption, ethnic tension and social inequality. These problems have harmed the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and people, hampering efforts to consolidate the partys ruling status, and its mission to strictly manage the party has never been so arduous and urgent, the plenum communique stated. With an estimated 100,000 street riots and disturbances across the country taking place last year, a yawning rich-poor gap and continued ethnic turbulence in Tibet and Xinjiang, Chinese leaders are clearly thinking about how best to continue their rule. Amid widespread social discontent, many people were now questioning the legitimacy of the Communist Partys rule, said former Chinese Academy of Social Sciences historian Zhang Lifan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This work confronts Social issues and Human Rights issues, as well as other questions such as globalization and pollution. ------------ This project is not finished and should be considered a work in progress. I am currently still producing episodes and putting them out. Please subscribe to be most current. There is quite a lot of work left to be done. -------------- The contents of this podcast are derived from HD video, digital photography and audio recordings recorded in the People's Republic of China 中国 by William Kai Stephanos and music produced/composed/performed in Johnson City, Tennessee in 2008 & 2009.-------- © 2007-2010 De V.S. LES Etats-Unis Gli S.U.A. EUA LOS E.E.U.U. США De V.S. ΗΠΑ أوسا 米国미국美国-------------------------------- William's Contacts: Email: zwks2@goldmail.etsu.edu Mailing Address: PO Box 125 Johnson City TN 37605 USA------------------------------- Some truth about Media & Broadcasters of Doctored News & Lies:-------- 1. If there is a power that wants to block information, then we should assume this power is bad.----------- 2. If this power is actually successful in blocking the information, then this power should be assumed to be worse.------------- 3. If the power which blocked the information now publishes only one-sided information then we should assume this information is false.---------- 4. For all untrue information, the power which blocked the information should be held most responsible.--------- 5. The power, which blocks information, has no credibility to judge related information that flows around it.------ 6. Information blocking only contributes to making the divisions deeper and the situations worse since people in different positions are all talking from their own perspectives, and cannot be verified.-------- This disrupts honest and credible communication.--------- 7. Ultra-nationalism is an emotion and is not based on reason. --------- Censorship is bad for at least one reason because it only serves to foster extreme nationalism and intolerance of other people.--------- This extreme position helps totalitarian governments in retaining power.-------- 8. Therefore, allowing the media and transparency to exist freely in places like corrupt US Foreign Policy, Tibet, Burma, Darfur, Palestine, the politically incorrect in general, etc. to report the truth, is critical in helping to resolve the issues and conflicts of our age that often go on without a voice or a name. ----------