Why does CHINA still restrict personal FREEDOMS and not become a free nation?

Why is China still basically caught in its past? Why do they still not have the person freedoms that so many nations do? The Olympic coverage kept talking about why this was such a big event for China, but why? What is it about their past that has kept them from changing into a country, similar to the rest of the world?

Any help is greatly appreciated, but please leave a source! Thanks!Why does CHINA still restrict personal FREEDOMS and not become a free nation?Don't just quote mainstream media propaganda.



Which freedom are you referring to?



To join the drama(election) directed by big corps?



What exactly you can do while a Chinese can't?


Why does CHINA still restrict personal FREEDOMS and not become a free nation?
Freedom is a relative term. What is freedom to one country could be repression in another. In Denmark they are much freer than the United States when it comes to selling drugs. In China there is no age restriction to drinking alcohol... When the United States wrote up it's constitution slavery still existed, women could not vote, yet all men are created equal existed in it's constitution. The US has progressed over the decades. China has actually also progressed, yet each nation progress at there own pace. To force beliefs from one society onto another is wrong... Star Trek had a %26quot;non-interferance directive%26quot; to let other worlds develop naturally. Yet in our world the US thinks of nothing of interfering with the policies of another.
Why does CHINA still restrict personal FREEDOMS and not become a free nation?
Look up the word Communist. Study each and every country that has been conquered by them (none have had a free election to become Communist) and you will begin to understand. But seek out some individual that has escaped a Communist country and listen to him or her. They will give you a very different view of Communisms then your college professor!
The Chinese government to put it bluntly, the government is bending to the pressure of capitalism but it still has control over information. Giving personal freedoms means giving up their authority which they don't want. They control information thus they control history and what the chinese know about their government. A revolution isn't going to happen when the majority of Chinese people don't even know

Tiananmen Square happened.
Indeed it DOES restrict freedoms, but what we often fail to realise is that the US, the UK and many other nations do this too, of course not the the same extent. There is really no such thing as a 'free' country. This is a western myth and is one of our greatest naivet茅s. Look at the laws of your own nation - or even state - and you'll see ridiculous restrictions on our personal freedom. I've lived in Australia, the UK and Ireland and have travelled to dozens more, and all have problems with 'freedom'.



There is no 'similar to the rest of the world' as you suggest. There are countless different ways a nation relates (and reacts) to it's own people.



China, although it has MANY problems with human rights, is changing faster than any other nation on the planet. They've come a long way - and of course still NEED to come further - but we should be applauding their efforts in this time of monumental change - while at the same time, constantly encouraging them to do better.



Sources?: Read the Guardian and Independent newspapers (on-line if you're not in the UK) read Monocle magazine, read Utne Reader, read the Economist, the New Statesman, basically... read, read and read more and use your innate intelligence to filter out the rubbish.



The only valid opinion is an INFORMED opinion! :-)
It is slowly getting phased out by the Chinese government. The reason they do not do it all in one day is since they are a communist nation, people can slack off and still get their fair share of everything else other people work for. So if you were to suddenly say %26quot;birdie be free%26quot;, they would have slackers who would not do anything and they would essentially be put into a depression like ours in the '30s, becuase there would be starving people who do not make any money.
have you heard of COMMUNISM?

And, why are WE caught up in our past? We don't want to forget, so we don't make the same mistakes. Communism is still the present for them, if it was the past, There would be no communist Cuba or North Korea.
For a country with a billion people in it, I'd say they're doing very well. Do you really think that a democracy of a billion people would function?



Have you been to China? I'd say you should travel there before you unleash your judgement.
thanks to the government, americans believe the only freedom is the freedom of free expression. nothing else counts.



look up the term %26quot;freedom%26quot;, and do some research about modern China.
Same question i could ask about America.



Why does our president talk about freedom ....then use the CIA as if it were the KGB and claim we are unpatriotic if we don;t submit to the forces of government even though we have commited no crime?
China has NEVER been free, even before those evil communist bastards. I think that their ancient Confucian culture may have alot to do with this too.
The politburo wants to hold onto power.
The One China Policy.
Try....1000 years of tradition...maybe thats it
cause their dam commies.
why?just because you're brainwashed by your media?but...it really doesn't matter what you think about CCP, we love our gov what can you do about it :)
It is still communist.