THE FREE MARKET FORUM
This forum takes place in Hillsdale College
where scholars talk of the relationship of economic liberty to civil and
religious liberty, the case of China
Dr. Charles wolf an economist talks Bring
along and Take always where he describes Bring along as distinction between
freedom from and liberty to do, which both apply in economic domain.
He talks of freedom from excess taxation
which is liberty but restriction apply to civil and religious domain in china.
The 2nd bring alongs Dr Wolf
talk of 3Ts and 1S which entails Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen and Student protest
which they call umbrella movement. He says it is politically incorrect in China
to discuss the umbrella movement in public and in private.
In analyzing economic liberty in China, he
talks of optimism 3rd and 4th party plenums(2013 to 2014)
praise for both state sector (SOEs and market sector plus
attention to the rule of law also data on relative GDP shares (4O% of state
sector which he terms as better) growth rates employment growth since 2OO7,
which raises concerns about slow down.
The links between reducing or eliminating
continuity of CC and corruption which manifest throughout and the size
of government is called tacit syllogism. Optimism in economic liberty has been
accomplished in private sector and state sector.
Companies like alibaba and Huawei have
grown remarkably in global market, however as long as state sector is prominent
in Chinese economy the incentives for corruption will be irresistible.
Looking at civil liberty Freedom House
Ratings have placed china as second tier of two dozen countries with worst
civil liberty records among 105 countries included in 2015 revolution.
Chinas civil liberty is higher than that of
North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria and some low level compared to Cuba, Ethiopia,
Crimea (Post Russian occupation but less free than Iran, Egypt and Algeria.
Texture quality
of civil liberty (civil rights and civil society) is sharply different
between US and china US pluralism diversity are core values (eg second
amendment versus general control, ro- choise, ro- life, think tank across spectrum
etc.
Pluralism is incentivized by via tax exception
hence 2.5million people are in religious organization which shows the quality
of civil liberty.
China unity or narrow range of diversity
seek and enforce multiple sources of suort for government policy e.g new think
tanks with Chinese characteristics to establish a policy making constituency
which entails development of new ideas which soused to be supportive thus likely
result is hundreds of NGOs versus million in US.
Eras counterveiling effects of huge iPhone penetration
and hyperactive internet use, 7OOmillion in china erticiate on internet which
is a source of civil liberty.
Religious liberty on the other hand according
to Article 36 of Chinese constitution has severe restriction.
China is termed as secular and relational
society rather than transactional society in US but religious freedom for all
citizens in china is constitutionally guaranteed although denied for 85 million
CC members.
localized, delocalized religious practices are
okay but not centralized organized movement for example Falon Gong, Muslim
Uigurs.
Religious liberty in china is tolerated yet
restricted compared to Asia and Middle East
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