China's Human Rights Violations

China's birth control policy, which is also known as the one-child policy, was created by the Chinese Government in 1979. The policy states that anyone who has more than one child is obligated for jail time or imprisonment. Although this can control the population of China, it causes forced abortions, abandonment, sex-selective abortions and other human rights violations all throughout the country. It is said that this holds a significant contribution to the gender imbalance in mainland China. The Chinese government estimates that 250 million births were prevented from this policy. There has been some slight changes to this policy over the years which allow ethnic minorities and the Chinese living in rural areas to have more than one child. If there has to be changes to this policy, the changes should be more reasonable. The U.S should step in and tell the Chinese government how they deal with over population such as taxing the higher income families to provide food stamps, and housing projects for the lower income families that have children.This one-child policy ignites many problems within the country that tend to ignite more complicated problems.

Our class had a visitor come in and give a presentation on people in China who were persecuted for practicing Falun Gong. Although many stories of Falun Gong were told, the most pertinent one is that these people were illegally arrested for not a single reason. The Chinese citizens practicing Falun Gong were deprived of their legal rights in all of the Chinese Courts. Once they became captured, thousands were tortured to death. While these "communist" actions were taking place, people were selling the organs of the Falun Gong practitioners to acquire massive amounts of money, receiving 100% profit. A change for this disastrous complication needs to be made. An outside nation, such as the U.S, should step in an show the Chinese government evidence that other countries to know what's happening in their country. The U.S can even threaten China that they will not buy their manufactured products because of how unethically they deal with things. This can put economic pressure on their government and hopefully they will think the persecutions through. In conclusion, there are numerous human rights violations in China that need to be resolved, but the only way for them to be resolved is for another country such as the U.S to step in and take charge from a different perspective.