POL112H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jiang Zemin, Paramount Leader, Counter-Terrorism

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Tens of millions of chinese died of starvation under mao"s rule & millions more put to death by the state. After mao"s death, china transitioned to oligarchy w/ term limits & checks on power for leaders: a lot of communist leaders suffered, put on house arrest, executed. On june 4, 1989, chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters in tiananmen square and elsewhere, killing hundreds protesting for democracy. Communist party has remained in power as china became the fastest-growing economy in the world. Does not tolerate a frontal attack on the communist party: not allowed to criticize communist party, you could disappear, get arrested, no phone call. Protestors are imprisoned, re-educated or never heard from again: dissenters as mentally ill, sent to mental health institutions. Freedom of assembly and association reluctant to allow people to organize for political reasons. Political decision making is opaque nobody really knows for sure how decisions are made.

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