Engagement is the driving force helping China overcome civil rights problems and comply with international standards of trade, conduct, and law. Engagement allows for the rapid reform of state-owned enterprises and the Westernization of China. However, as long as China utilizes cheap labor, little civil liberties, and poor working conditions, ... reasons for China's economic development are its use of cheap labor, little civil liberties, and poor working conditions. These conditions are the result of a strategy where financial incentives for local government officials are provided to enliven...

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... a means to justify human rights abuses. Thus human rights are culturally relative and are certainly not universal in many states which have opposing views to the West, despite being international law. Human rights can also be compromised for cultural economic reasons, as exemplified in China. While china is now the second largest economy in the world, its rapid economic development, ... safe and healthy working conditions'. In addition, China's violations of human rights are heightened by its authoritarian regime. Under the Chinese Communist Party, independent labour unions are banned, a...

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... 1) Dahl defines "Democracy " as a political system which has the characteristics of being completely or almost completely responsive to all its citizens. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. So, polyarchies "are regimes that have been substantially popularized and liberalized, one which is ... with Lenin's vision of the communist part-state. (O'Neil (2010) page 297) According to Dahl, the definition of public contestation and participation includes classic f...

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... reordering international political relations, the very foundation of the world order has changed. The creation of IGOS and INGOS, the changing structure of the form, scope and subject of international law, the emergence of regional organization and institutions all illuminate a shift from a purely state centric politics to a new and more complex, form of multilayered global governance. (Held & David, 2003:85) In ... including loving the country, loving the party, protecting its own rights in political and economic field, preserve traditional Chinese culture and so on. The trend of globa...

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