Ming Feng Schnorr
Mr. Rowley
Advanced World Studies
1 December 2011
United States and China:
Relationship Issues
Even though China has done many questionable acts, even towards its own people, the United States must remain in a good connection with China because without their trade with the U.S. then countless products will either become unavailable or harder to obtain.
The amount of items that gets exported from China to the United States is enormous. Trade to China is also very important too. Everyone knows that a lot to most of the items that people buy from the store has some relation to China. China is important to the U.S. because products that comes from China is made more cheaply because of the people that get paid less for the work. If there was no relations with China then many products’ prices would go up very much. If we stopped relations with China they could black mail the U.S. because they owe them millions of dollars.
The Chinese have recently adapted the policy of foreign trades with other countries. One of these countries along with many others include the United States. Before Deng Xiaoping was in power there was a Communist leader named Mao Zedong. He gained power around the 1930’s when he led his group of Communist followers away from the Nationalist forces. During his first decade or so there was a civil war between the Communists and Nationalist. Eventually the Communist party won and gained control of China. The Nationalist party was more open to communications and relationships with foreign countries. With Mao Zedong in charge he made foreign contact less common and let women have somewhat equal rights.
After Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping another Communist took power. The country was in a lot better condition economically then before but politically not too much change. He made changes in farming, industry, science, technology, and defense. Most importantly in the eyes of the outside world, Deng promoted foreign trade and more contact with foreign nations. The slideshow says in multiple slides that foreign relations and trade improved. Without Deng foreign trade would not have been as good as it was.
The evil part of the relationship that comes in the relationship with China. Having a relationship with China means that the United States accepts everything that China does and their rules. The problem with that is that China has a different way of handling things that other countries see odd. One of these oddities is China’s human rights violations. Human rights are not confined to just one country, so that means that what a group sees as wrong than other countries in that group need to see that as wrong too. These violations include freedom of expression, prisoners and criminals are tortured. Others are a lot of trials are uncommon, there is a high rate of death penalty, and that there is a one child policy.
The events of Tiananmen Square prove the evils faced with a relationship with China. There was a very large amount of students and various other groups the meet up in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. At the peak of its numbers there was over 1.2 million people protesting there. They were there because they wanted Democracy and better conditions at their colleges. At one point they would strike by not eating, saying that until their demands are met they would starve to prove their point. Deng didn’t do anything to stop the hunger strikers from going to the hospital for medical reasons. When the government thought that the protesters were getting out of hand they decided to put the city into martial law. A bit later the government had to send in military troops and tanks into Beijing. The people that got in the way would be shot instead of detained. The re inforcers were not using riot control weapons but instead used machine guns that use bullets that are usually used for anti-aircraft weapons. The would fire into the crowds killing innocent people. The amount of people that died were in the high thousands. The killing of innocent people showed the evils of China’s government.
In conclusion even though China has done many wrongs in their past, the U.S. as a country must have good relations with China for their trade and both of their economies.
