Why does China lock people up for speaking their minds?

Answer 1

I just love all the canned answers from people that obviously have no idea what they are talking about. Pretty much spewing the same garbage they have heard for years without any research whatsoever.

Yes, China allows people to speak their minds. What they can't do is stand on a street corner or a soapbox doing that. In private, the government doesn't give a damned what people say.

There are thousands of blogs in China. Many of them are pretty opened. But the problem is, in the west no one really knows whats going on because its all in Chinese. Can you read, lets say, French? Yes, uses the same alphabet. Chinese? 99.9% of Americans can't. It takes knowledge of 4,000 Chinese characters just to read a newspaper. A first grader in China is taught 500 characters their first year. All we have to do is worry about 26 plus punctuation for a lifetime.

Below is what I wrote about their judicial system with links in another thread.

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China is currently going through an overhaul of their judicial system. It is nowhere near being perfect and there are aspects of it that are inhuman.

However, they are aware of that are are taking steps to change that.

Currently, a person can be put to death for over 50 crimes. That is being reviewed and changed as I speak. They are removing some of those as capital crimes, changing others to life in prison, others are commuted to life in prison according to the prisoners behavior, remorse and in some cases restitution.

Their appeals process is being overhauled. One thing they have changed is all capital crimes are now automatically appealed to their supreme court.

One of the things I have learned about China after living here for a while. A person seeing the inside of a courtroom is very rare. Being charged with a crime is a huge source of shame for a family. So therefore, it has been difficult to find first hand knowledge of those incarcerated and what the offense was. Therefore, I can't answer your question honestly, but I can help put some of the assertions, by people who have no idea what they are talking about, to bed.

China used to have public executions, but I understand that is no longer practiced and it is done through lethal injections.

Finally, China is not communist as that is the opposite of capitalism. Nor is China a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. Their leadership is elected by the members of the communist party at the province level and in turn those elected officials then elect the leadership in Bejing. Further, China is encouraging non party members to become active in government and hold office. China is not totalitarian since that means they would control all aspects of life and that is simply not the case. People in China are free to travel, change jobs, open businesses, get rich, immigrate, and do other things that we in the USA take for granted.

What most know of China would fit in a thimble, what most THINK they know would fit in a barrel.

China is much of what we want her to be, and little of what many of us think.

I know, I'm an ex pat from the USA who lives in the heart of China.

Peace

Jim

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Source(s):
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776...
http://english.people.com.cn
http://www.china.org.cn

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Answer 2

till western government clever as much as the very shown fact that it could be a probability to take each business activity out of the u . s . a . Canada Europe and Australia , there nevertheless does no longer be sufficient jobs to grant each china guy a job.. ITs fairly surprising to think of that china and india make up all maximum 0.5 the worlds inhabitants, activity migrating from west to east will proceed because of the fact corporation proprietors look on the base line, while they see that they'd get products made in china and centers in india for a tenth of what it expenses interior the west all they see is extensive $ or £ , forgetting that till people interior the west have money to purchase the cheap products, then there is not any element in making them.

Answer 3

Because they are a communist country, which makes one wonder why Bill Clinton signed a peace treaty with them after the first bombing of the World Trade Center and why he removed import/export taxes to give China our jobs, industry and money.

Answer 4

Because the ones in power want to stay in power so they repress everyone. They don't want anyone starting a movement to overthrow them.

Answer 5

Because they don't believe in freedom of speech, unlike other countries where it's written into law.

Answer 6

Because they see our democrats thinking about enacting the "fairness doctrine" and they feel we can hardly complain about them under those circumstances.

Answer 7

They don't follow the U. S. Constitution.

Answer 8

Because the leaders want to stay in power, and communism doesn't work. If it dead, it would probably be pretty damn free.

Answer 9

Because it's a socialist dictatorship, and they cannot operate any other way.

Answer 10

yea?????
ever here of RENDITION?

people in glass houses should not through stones.