Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen SquareTiananmen Square

Protests:April 15th 1989- June 4th 1989Began with the mourning of the death of Hu Yaobang- pro-democracy official

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1132856,00.html

Media Coverage:BBC

This day in historyAnniversary in Lockdown

The Lone RebelYou TubeTime 100

China’s Tiananmen Generation China’s Tiananmen Generation Speaks:Speaks:

China drew worldwide condemnation for brutally quashing a student uprising in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. But in the months and years that followed, the incident has remained largely unmentioned inside China, at least in public.

Here people born in the years around the crackdown talk frankly about their knowledge of the event and how they were taught about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8061483.stm

Government StructureGovernment StructureChinese Communist Party (CCP)

Founded 1921

80 million membersWorld’s largest communist party

World’s largest political party

Membership has PRIVLEDGETo become a member:

– applicants need the backing of existing members– Background checks and examinations locally– Year probation (with assessments and training)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13904437

National People’s CongressNational People’s Congress

2,000 people are elected into the NPC

Convened once every 5 years to elect Central Committee (200 people)Central Committee elects 24 member Politburo…

POLITBURO

Every significant decision affecting China's 1.3bn people is first discussed and approved by a handful of people - almost all men - on the party's political bureau (politburo), the nexus of all power in China. The 24-member Politburo is elected by the party's central committee. But real power lies with its smaller standing committee, which works as a kind of inner cabinet and groups together the country's most influential leaders. How the standing committee operates is secret. But its meetings are thought to be regular and frequent, often characterised by blunt speaking and disagreement.

Leaders:

CCPCCP

Xi JinpingCCP: Nov. 2012-?

President: Mar. 2013-?

President of China

Hu JintaoCCP: Nov. 2002- Nov. 2012

President: Mar. 2003- Mar 2013

APEC!APEC!

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