Date: September 06, 2023

Members: Simon Dousdebes, Santiago Reyes, Sara Rivas and Alejandro Ardila

State analysis: Objective of the State

1. Is the State concern about Environment and Human Rights? (Simon Dousdebes and
Santiago Reyes)
According to the document, China is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gas
emissions, so this section mentions that it has been taking steps to reduce this impact.
President Xi announced at the UN General Assembly in October that China would stop
"building new coal-fired power projects" and in September 2020, Xi announced that China
would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, However, despite having proposed several
solutions to reduce emissions, according to Climate Action Tracker, these solutions are
insufficient to meet the country's objectives, so we can infer that some of the measures
proposed are not entirely realistic and appear to be a facade because economically it is not
favorable for the country, so it can be inferred that the leaders seek their own benefit over that
of the population. In terms of human rights associated with the environment, as it is known,
China is a country that uses processed minerals and projects, that gives the country a huge
amount of ingress, however, it is also known that some of this products may have been
related with human rights abuse, things such as forced labor have been connected to this
activities, also, to acquired this materials and minerals, deforestation has taken place on the
country.
2. How is the State dealing with Humanitarian emergencies? (Alejandro Ardila)
A humanitarian crisis is defined an emergency situation in which massive humanitarian aid
needs are anticipated to a degree far greater than what might otherwise be the case. Going by
this definition we could classify the living situation of the common chinese cityzens as a
humanitarian crisis because several basic rights that we take as given now a days are being
negated and right down denied such as, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom
of religion, women's right, workers' rights and the right to privacy, etc... And what have the
Chinese government done about it? Nothing, in most cases the Chinese government is
working against the common goods for its own citizens, via arresting, threatening and
attacking directly anyone who dares to speak up in any kind of way and in other cases such as
the creation of anti-domestic violence laws the government simply ignores it. All this action
says that the Chinese government does not care about their citizen's and dealing this severe
Humanitarian Crisis and in all consideration the government is the direct cause of this crisis
and that all these rights haven't been followed as they should.

3. Does the country have freedom of expression? (Sara Rivas and Santiago Reyes)
No, the people in the country do not have freedom of expression, as the government
suppresses the ones who express something against the governments´ beliefs. The
government harasses, suppresses or detains the ones who express their opinion, only if their
opinion is different to the government posture. Even though the constitution states that
everyone has freedom of speech, people are still suppressed by the government's power to
imprison and detain the ones who speak against the government. The government censors,
punishes dissent, propagates disinformation and tightens the reins on tech giants. China
doubled down on repression inside and outside the country in 2021. The number of people
who can write is limited; they can only do so if they write in favor of the government. One
example of this is that they silenced Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. They are silencing
and punishing people for giving their opinion. As an example of this we can consider the way
China silences the social media with LGBTQ+ content, the country has established rigid laws
about sexual orientation, even categorizing it as a psychological disorder, and not allowinng
people to complain about it since the goverment makes sure to hide this kind of things,
specially on social media networks such as WeChat. Everything is controlled online by the
government. Another example of freedom of expression being limited is the fact that Chinese
people are only allowed to believe in one of the five allowed religions, Religion being
controlled is just another prove that the government doesn´t allow freedom of expression.

4. How does the army operate, protecting human rights or abusing them? (Alejandro
Ardila)
The Chinese government abuses the power of its military and its police force to silence all
citizen that speaks against the government or in favor of basic human rights. The most
common way the chinese government uses its police to arrest and silence right activists by
charging them with vague crimes such as “Subversion” such has been the cases of food
delivery and labor right activist Chen Goujing, activist Zhou Weilin, Cheng Yuan, Liu
Yonze, Wu Gejianxiong, the founder and to members of the anti-discrimination group. Or
even more severe cases like Paul Harris who resinged because threats to himself and its
family. There has even been cases where the government has attacked entire companies such
as Beijings second most popular newspaper “Apple daily” that in June of 2021 its top
executive and editors were arrested, and their headquarters raided.