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Social Instability In China

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Social instability in China stems from the legacy of Mao Zedong and the inability of the Chinese political elite to tear itself away from Mao’s manifestation of communism. Mao’s influence continues to live on creating a huge fragmentation in society and allowing the regime to create inequalities. The United States base their politics on freedom and liberty. Chinas politics centre on economic reform and aggressively asserting nationalism. It is these pillars that offers the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) legitimacy. If the implementation of an economic policy fails it further deepens social instability. The same can be said if a campaign fails to assert nationalism. Not only does it highlight the regimes advantages and disadvantages, it also …show more content…

Economic progression trumps human welfare in the CCPs list of objectives. This is evident throughout the regimes history. China has seen the implementation of economic policy that has not benefitted the economy or the welfare of the state. Mao Zedong ill decisions from 1958 onwards began creating great social instability. The regime still bears a resemblance to the one that was in place during the Mao era, however Chinese politicians are now just as eager to pursue economic reform as they are to find a solution to the social instability. But modern day political decisions, since the 1990s, continue to create new inequalities (Saich, 2011, page …show more content…

Some decisions to further economic development can be seen as good and progressive for China. Some may also view it as calculating. The CCP implemented policies, not economic in nature, that directly affect marriage and the family. The CCP, like most democratic countries, gave women equal rights to men. The traditional functions that women had would be relieved by the government and they would be free to marry who they wanted, rather than being tied to their fathers’ choice of groom. The underlying motivation of freeing women to pursue their own choices was to have a greater percentage of the population available for productive labour. Not only did this give women all the rights their opposite sex had, but they would align their loyalty to the CCP (Walker, 1981) encouraging a new group to support the CCPs legitimate claim. This added number to the workforce also served economic purposes. “The underlying premise that the best way to alleviate poverty and improve welfare is to boost production has been accepted by the post-Mao leaderships” (Saich, 2011

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