Politics of the Developing Nations POSC 311

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Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is a Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004).

Friday, October 07, 2005

CHINA

The presentation on China was information rich. I understand that organizing so much information and presenting it in such a short period must be a challenge to all of you. But keep up the good work.







The Chinese presentation was excellent in many areas but a bit weak on the political structure of China. The key areas that must be covered in country presentations are, political structure, economy, culture, foreign affairs and the impact of globalization. You are welcome to cover other issues but the above fove must be covered. I recognize that my photography is not on par, but I promise to improve as we go along.

5 Comments:

Mustafa Zia said...

I thought there was not a balance in the presentation. SOme areas were given much more emphasis than others. I think that if there were more stuff on globalization (with CHINA being an epidemy of globalization) it would have been much better. Also, they were not on the point, meaning that they had a lot of information, but did not present it in a concise way. However, I must say that I did learn a good amount of info about CHINA from the presentation!

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Mustafa Zia said...

FORGOT TO PUT THE DATE AND NAME,

MUSTAFA ZIA, October 10.

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jodi said...

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jodi said...

Just to add to the presentation's discussion of population problems:
"Dying Rooms" and the follow-up, "Return to the Dying Rooms" were British documentaries which unveiled the horrors of Chinese state-run orphanages. In these rooms, the weak or unliked children were left to die. I remember seeing parts of the documentary, a baby left in a dark room- only skin stretched taught over bones, neglected in terms of care, food, and water for over a week soon to die. It was a horrible image.
These "dying rooms" were a result of China's one-child policy. Families desired and profited from the birth of a male child thereby forcing the abandonment of a female child. Just thought I would be bring the intensity of the policy to attention.

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kathryn mcclister said...

China is a very interesting country. I was proud to be a part of this group. I felt the presentation came together very well. By doing this project I learned a great deal about China and its role in the world with globalization and the WTO. It was interesting to me how people in China favor American phrases and food. I was also interested to learn about the general poplulation and just how many people occupy the country. Today in Class Dr. Khan brought up his own theory of how India may be a real competition to America instead of China. This was very interesting to me because I had not considered how China does not have a democracy or global social impact. But China does have military and economy. India has the military, democracy, economy and culture impacts. American powers include military, economy, culture and democracy; the components needed to dominate the world. This was an interesting theory one that does make a lot of sense once truly thought out.

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