2011.11.14

Independents Day

Page 28-31, TIME October 31, 2011

Introduction

In China, every single statement about politics is censored, even if it is published on the internet. I read an article about internet censorship by Chinese government. According to it, Google have been claimed so many times to delete or change suspicious web contents which include troublesome statements for Chinese government. But it also benefits the liberalization of the closed political system. Why?

SignSpotting

• People standing as a independent candidate in local polls have faced hardship.
• Why is it now when people need policy from out of communist party? 
• Why government authorities are so scared by the independents standing?

Briefing

Now is the time for Chinese independent candidate to change the old-fashioned electoral system. Social media has provided innovative way of communication and accelerated people’s frustration over the communist party’s dictatorship. But most of brave representatives faced intensive counteroffensive from the government in official but unfaire way. This is because of its political characteristic, which want the country to look developed in terms of humanity or human right, but actually do not want to give its power to people. In the article, this is described as the paranoia for power. 

Opinion

China has experienced economical development which attract world’s attention, but there has been another remarkable change out of the sight. That is growing humanity and citizenship in people’s mind. Chinese citizen has protested against government’s dictatorship historically but has been suppressed every time. This is partly because each constituent members were isolated in making opinion. However, this time, citizenship is empowered with effective communication tool, which is called social media. Therefore, the electoral movement of independent candidates is promising, where people can be associated each other for collective support for new politician and collective pressure on the government.