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Leader: Li Hongzhi

History of communism and china- The history of communist rule has been fought against dating back all the way to the early 1900s. Mao Zedong develped his ideas and in 1921 the China Communists party was created. Their plan was to rule all of china and their party rapidly grew and they began to becme more powerful. Their power slowly began to come to a hault around 1934. In 1946 the Communists party and the Kuomintang signed a peace treaty between them. The Kuomintang broke this treaty and started to attack them later on, China started to lose support for the Kuomintang and China began to lose trust in them. They began to gain the peoples support back in 1949 when Mao Zedong and other communists leaders acted in what was called the Communists movement. In 1947 by promising that in time things will be under control and t give them time. Hu Jintao is the leader of the CCP and the chinese government supports the actions of them and what they are doing. They have banned several religious groups such as the Falun Gong because in their eyes they were evil. China has a freedom of speech and the communist party does not allow other followings. China does not uphold the constitutional rights given such as freedom of religion. The CCP harasses and throws whoever does not agree with what they do and believe in.

Human rights- China has freedom of speech and freedom of press. the country does not support this though. the constitution also states that people cant do anything that the state does not approve. the constitutional rights in china are not upheld. Falun gong believe that there should be freedom of speech. the Falun gong cannot practice there beliefs in china because it is banned. many people have been prosecuted because of Falun gong. the government of china has freedom of religion. but they control religious places of worship too. We the Falun Gong believe that Chinas freedom of religon needs to be enforced becasue theey are not follwing our rights and banned us.

Global Interdependance- Many surrounding countries and the U.S rely on China and their abillity to produce and and import and export goods. They are the second largest trade nation, the largest exporter in the world, and the 2nd largest importer of goods. They are one of the most financially sound governments in the world. The Falun Gong strongly belives that our belief should be allowed in china due to our rights of freedom of religon. in ther countries our beliefs would be allowed.

Enviroment- China's enviroment used to be very clean because their main way of money was through agriculture but now they are industrial. The factories and many other buildings are creating a great deal of pollution and no one really likes or agrees with the amount of water and air pollution that China now has. it affects all of the Chinese citizens including us, while we are practicing our practices and meditating the pollution affects us and other groups. The Falun Gong however does not in anyway support or contribute to the pollution and are strongly against it.

Tolerance of Diversty- the chinese communist party banned the falun gong On 20 July 1999. the ccp believes that the falun gong is evil. there were many deaths, torturing and killings of falun gong party members. some of these tortures consist of severe beatings, psychological torment, included forcing victims to curse Li Hongzhi, to destroy his portrait and the Falun Gong publications, or force the individual to drink alcohol and to smoke, which are contrary to Falun Gong beliefs. The CCP has no tolerance for other groups that don't believe in what they believe or follow, therefor they don't tolerate any other groups because they ban them and throw them in jail.

What efforts have you taken to interact with China? Since we were banned in 1999 we haven't interacted with China because we will be harassed and thrown in jail. So we don't come ou in the open with our beliefs nor do we have any relationship with China since they banned us for being "evil".

What success you have had on promoting a positive relationship with China?  We have no relationship what so ever with China because it is illegal to practice our religon in china, so we have not been able to promote our beliefs.

Discuss the intent your group has in promoting (or working against) the progress of China- we will try to get the falun gong belief unbanned from china. the only way this could happen is through the communist party falling. they are restricting and prosecuting of falun gong members.

What impact will China have on the next 50 years of world history? the impact china will have is mass buisness. They have basically a part in everything around the world, they are the leaders in mas producing because they have such a large poppulation. the chinese are slowly turning into a capitalist country. the ccp will fall and capitalism will force the country to change its ideals and ways of thinking. china is slowly changing and will need to adjust to it. They need to get out of the communist rule because us as citizens have rights but arent being upheld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong http://faluninfo.net/category/11/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China