China Economic Crisis

China is ran under a dictatorship, led by Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party. Being an authoritarian country, they restrict their citizens’ activities, job opportunities, education and rights. For many decades the citizens of China were prohibited to conceiving more than one child, recently that have changed. The people of China are now allowed to consider a second child. This policy have not affected many people of China because they are accustom to the one child policy life style. The people of China are used to living and caring for one child, that a second child would only cause more financial problems. This limits the amount of production in China.

In comparison to the US, the Chinese people have more of a widespread unemployment rate, income inequality, inequality as citizens and they live in more poverty. In China, they have sweatshops that all age children work in. This means that you can start working at any age you are capable of comprehending the task at hand. Also, they have limited jobs opportunities, so everyone is fighting to get into the same place. Otherwise, they are pack in one location or factory to work long hours under horrible conditions. This leads to an economy where there’s a lot of output but no input. The people of China are only consuming goods that is necessary for their family to survive and everything else is useless.

For instance, the Foxconn factories in china limit their workers to having a life outside of their job. Also, they have to pay to work in these atrocious conditions. “They keep their employees in overcrowded dormitories run by military-like security forces. People work excessive hours, often with no compensation for overtime, which the company claims is done voluntarily. Management controls every aspect of workers’ lives, interfering with their privacy. The concept of privacy is even an illusion, as up to 24 people share a room in huge blockhouses.” This type of lifestyle can make a person very depressed. It’s not healthy for the Chinese citizens or anyone else. The people who work in the Foxconn industry are basically paying to work in confinement. They are on a time schedule and are supervised throughout the week. Even when they aren’t working.

In addition, in Beijing there’s an excess industrial production problem that affects the economic reform. The government is bringing in products that aren’t currently being used. So, factories are getting shut down and the demand for those products are lessening. The people of China are getting fired from their jobs, so they are consuming less products. Which is causing the government to get rid of the surplus. The government also realizes that this will harm the revenue of China. So, they are making excuses to why production have slowed down. But the real reason is because they care less about their people demands and more about profit.   

China's Two Child Policy

Many may argue that they should not be prohibited to having two children. But, China feels otherwise. About thirty years ago the Communist Party passed a law that was extremely harsh. Their citizens were only allow to have one child, preferably a little boy. The Communist Party believe that this would be the best way to control the population and demographics in their country. They realize that it didn’t solve much but they did see a fertility decline. Five years after passing the one child policy, the county, Yicheng figure that one more child wouldn’t hurt. So they passed a law that allow the citizens to have two children. Mr.Liang Zhongtang of the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences hoped it would become national in 2000. But it didn’t. It wasn’t brought to many attention until 2010. Three years later is when the two child policy law was granted. "When China relaxed its policy in 2013, allowing people who were only children to have a second child, only 12% of those eligible applied." The Chinese people were so govern to only having one child that when the two child policy was in place it didn't really have an effect on whether they wanted a second child. How would you feel if you were only limited to having a certain amount of children. And if you were to have more than one or two children you could be fine or at risk of losing your job? That's imbalanced and no justice for the Chinese. They are imprisoned by their own government. If the US was to adapt a policy of such nature, there would be chaos everywhere. I can say that the one child policy does allow the government to control what is going on in their country. It can help control unemployment, funding problems, poverty, over population, and many more issues. On the other hand, it is a violation of the people’s right, it would be hard on the one child, and abortion rates will rise. With the two child policy in place the younger children, who can also be considered the boomers, can help take care of the elders in the country.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It struck many when Vice President Joe Biden decided he would not run in the 2016 presidential election. We can all say with his devotion and respect to President Barack Obama, he would’ve been a great candidate. With the support of his current supporters, Biden wouldn’t need much to prepare and rock the campaign to receive the nomination as the lead democrat. If Joe Biden became president he would continue to better the US by continuing what President Obama plans was for the US. Currently, in the race for democrats. We have Hilary Clinton, a woman who will change the way the US is portrayed if she becomes president. Many males would feel offended that a women was in office. But it would be the smarter move to better the economy. We also have Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont, he believes that change will not be easy to come by. He plans on continuing to help make college education free.

 On the other hand, for the Republican spot we have Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and six other unfamiliar candidates. Billionaire, Donald Trump will only set the US back a couple of steps if he becomes president. Instead of implementing a plan to control the immigration, he wants to deport the millions of migrants who’s currently here illegally. While it may look like Trump is caring of the US, he’s only going to destroy us as a whole if he’s elected. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, skipped out on the New Hampshire primary party. He’s undecided on what position he wants to take part in the presidential election. He stated he wouldn’t mind being the Vice President for Donald Trump. It looks as though he’s taking this election as a hoax. We also have Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas. He won the caucus for Iowa. Instead of speaking on how    he feels about certain issues, he’s focus on how the people view him. He like to defend his image in the media. That’s not going to help us better the US Cruz. He’s not a candidate I would take serious in the election. He’s worried to much about himself and not enough about the US.