Ken
what are the trade issues and conflict between China & US ?
Can someone elaborate in detail followed by reference links/urls
Thanks. I appreciate your help.
Answer
An increased number of lawyers and journalists were harassed, detained, and jailed. Thousands of people who pursued their faith outside officially sanctioned churches were subjected to harassment and many to detention and imprisonment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Migrants from rural areas were deprived of basic rights. Severe repression of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region continued, and freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and among Tibetans elsewhere.
International community
Before China's election to the new UN Human Rights Council, it made a number of human rights-related pledges, including ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and active co-operation with the UN on human rights. Chinese companies continued to export arms to countries where they were likely to be used for serious human rights abuses, including Sudan and Myanmar.
Human rights defenders
The government crackdown on lawyers and housing rights activists intensified. Many human rights defenders were subjected to lengthy periods of arbitrary detention without charge, as well as harassment by the police or by local gangs apparently condoned by the police. Many lived under near constant surveillance or house arrest and members of their families were increasingly targeted. New regulations restricted the ability of lawyers to represent groups of victims and to participate in collective petitions.
⢠Gao Zhisheng, an outspoken human rights lawyer, had his law practice suspended in November 2005. He was detained in August 2006 and remained in incommunicado detention at an unknown location until his trial in December 2006. In October he was formally arrested on charges of "inciting subversion", and in December he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, suspended for five years.
Journalists and Internet users
The government's crackdown on journalists, writers, and Internet users intensified. Numerous popular newspapers and journals were shut down. Hundreds of international websites remained blocked and thousands of Chinese websites were shut down. Dozens of journalists were detained for reporting on sensitive issues.
The government strengthened systems for blocking, filtering, and monitoring the flow of information. New regulations came into effect requiring foreign news agencies to gain approval from China's official news agency in order to publish any news. Many foreign journalists were detained for short periods.
Discrimination against rural migrants
Rural migrant workers in China's cities faced wide-ranging discrimination. Despite official commitment to resolve the problem, millions of migrant workers were still owed back pay. The vast majority were excluded from urban health insurance schemes and could not afford private health care. Access to public education remained tenuous for millions of migrant children, in contrast to other urban residents. An estimated
20 million migrant children were unable to live with their parents in the cities in part because of insecure schooling.
⢠Beijing municipal authorities closed dozens of migrant schools in September, affecting thousands of migrant children. While authorities claimed to have targeted unregistered and sub-standard schools, onerous demands made it nearly impossible for migrant schools to be registered. Some school staff believed the closures were aimed at reducing the migrant population in Beijing ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
Violence and discrimination against women
Violence and discrimination against women remained severe. The disadvantaged economic and social status of women and girls was evident in employment, health care and education. Women were laid off in larger numbers than men from failing state enterprises. Women accounted for 60 per cent of rural labourers and had fewer non-agricultural opportunities than men. The absence of gender-sensitive anti-HIV/AIDS policies contributed to a significant rise in female HIV/AIDS cases in 2006. Only 43 per cent of girls in rural areas completed education above lower middle school, compared with 61 per cent of boys.
Despite strengthened laws and government efforts to combat human trafficking, it remained pervasive, with an estimated 90 per cent of cases being women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation.
⢠Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-trained lawyer, was sentenced in August to a prison term of four years and three months on charges of "damaging public property and gathering people to stop traffic". He had been arbitrarily confined to his home since September 2005 in connection with his advocacy on behalf of women undergoing forced abortions in Shandong Province. On appeal, the guilty verdict was overturned and the case sent back to the lower court for retrial, but the lower court upheld the original sentence.
Repression of spiritual and religious groups
The government conti
An increased number of lawyers and journalists were harassed, detained, and jailed. Thousands of people who pursued their faith outside officially sanctioned churches were subjected to harassment and many to detention and imprisonment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Migrants from rural areas were deprived of basic rights. Severe repression of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region continued, and freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and among Tibetans elsewhere.
International community
Before China's election to the new UN Human Rights Council, it made a number of human rights-related pledges, including ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and active co-operation with the UN on human rights. Chinese companies continued to export arms to countries where they were likely to be used for serious human rights abuses, including Sudan and Myanmar.
Human rights defenders
The government crackdown on lawyers and housing rights activists intensified. Many human rights defenders were subjected to lengthy periods of arbitrary detention without charge, as well as harassment by the police or by local gangs apparently condoned by the police. Many lived under near constant surveillance or house arrest and members of their families were increasingly targeted. New regulations restricted the ability of lawyers to represent groups of victims and to participate in collective petitions.
⢠Gao Zhisheng, an outspoken human rights lawyer, had his law practice suspended in November 2005. He was detained in August 2006 and remained in incommunicado detention at an unknown location until his trial in December 2006. In October he was formally arrested on charges of "inciting subversion", and in December he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, suspended for five years.
Journalists and Internet users
The government's crackdown on journalists, writers, and Internet users intensified. Numerous popular newspapers and journals were shut down. Hundreds of international websites remained blocked and thousands of Chinese websites were shut down. Dozens of journalists were detained for reporting on sensitive issues.
The government strengthened systems for blocking, filtering, and monitoring the flow of information. New regulations came into effect requiring foreign news agencies to gain approval from China's official news agency in order to publish any news. Many foreign journalists were detained for short periods.
Discrimination against rural migrants
Rural migrant workers in China's cities faced wide-ranging discrimination. Despite official commitment to resolve the problem, millions of migrant workers were still owed back pay. The vast majority were excluded from urban health insurance schemes and could not afford private health care. Access to public education remained tenuous for millions of migrant children, in contrast to other urban residents. An estimated
20 million migrant children were unable to live with their parents in the cities in part because of insecure schooling.
⢠Beijing municipal authorities closed dozens of migrant schools in September, affecting thousands of migrant children. While authorities claimed to have targeted unregistered and sub-standard schools, onerous demands made it nearly impossible for migrant schools to be registered. Some school staff believed the closures were aimed at reducing the migrant population in Beijing ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
Violence and discrimination against women
Violence and discrimination against women remained severe. The disadvantaged economic and social status of women and girls was evident in employment, health care and education. Women were laid off in larger numbers than men from failing state enterprises. Women accounted for 60 per cent of rural labourers and had fewer non-agricultural opportunities than men. The absence of gender-sensitive anti-HIV/AIDS policies contributed to a significant rise in female HIV/AIDS cases in 2006. Only 43 per cent of girls in rural areas completed education above lower middle school, compared with 61 per cent of boys.
Despite strengthened laws and government efforts to combat human trafficking, it remained pervasive, with an estimated 90 per cent of cases being women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation.
⢠Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-trained lawyer, was sentenced in August to a prison term of four years and three months on charges of "damaging public property and gathering people to stop traffic". He had been arbitrarily confined to his home since September 2005 in connection with his advocacy on behalf of women undergoing forced abortions in Shandong Province. On appeal, the guilty verdict was overturned and the case sent back to the lower court for retrial, but the lower court upheld the original sentence.
Repression of spiritual and religious groups
The government conti
Any ideas for a documentary?
Beauty is
I want to make a documentary...but idk about what. What is something that has never before been investigated that needs to be? something that the public would be interested in..something risky and exciting...hmmmm
Answer
What kind of documentary? I know you said something about political or social issues, but there are few different ways of making documentaries.
National Geographic or BBC style? Then you'll need a proper camera, video and audio editing software (Windows movie maker doesn't count, it's not advanced enough to edit brightness, contrast, unwanted discolouration), and some music composing skills, unless if you hire or ask a composer or video editor to do it professionally for you. It really matters a lot on video quality you're using. If video quality is that of NG, Discovery or BBC documentaries, you will need a really big camera and a tripod cause those cameras have a better quality. Maybe a handheld HD cameras have a nice video quality, but that's not for proper documentaries. You can't use the same video quality that you would use for a wedding video. For a proper documentary your crew will look like this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Tournage_de_film.JPG
I think the guy on the left has glide cam gear on him and you will also need someone to record the sound because the microphone on the camera is too far from the actual sound, so it wouldn't sound realistic.
Another type of documentaries is simply user created stuff that you see on Youtube. Just use actual footage of the issue you're reporting on, let's say an oil leak videos and then you do your own commentary and video animations between the footage. GOOD Magazine on Youtube makes such mini documentaries. The good side of such videos is that you can use copyrighted material without someone filing a DMCA claim against you. Fair Use allows you to use copyrighted material for news reporting or research, archiving. And the bad side is if you do this type of documentaries, you have to make sure that your videos are entertaining to watch, or not many would watch them.
And another type of documentaries is where a handheld camera would come handy like if you're secretly filming in Myanmar and North Korea or in rainforests, deserts and steppes where carrying heavy stuff is difficult, unless if you have a proper all-terrain vehicle. Journeyman Pictures or Current TV on Youtube are distributing many such documentaries. The documentaries are usually made by TV networks such as ABC Australia, so they have proper audio and video editors before Journeyman Pictures distributes them. Current haz some viewer created content, but usually they have a proper production team with proper reporters.
You'll also need a producer - someone to finance all of this, plan the travel, hire and fire workers, or you can do it all by yourself if it's a small documentary. But what would be your position if you do a professional documentary? Camera operator? Sound technician? But if all what you want to do is to report, then all what you need is a good voice of a narrator and good presentation skills of a news reporter. Then go on auditions and someone might hire you for their project, if you have a professional voice. It's like American Idol, there are good and bad singers. You have to be good. And you have to make sure your information is correct and unbiased, otherwise you will be like Fox news.
But who will watch your stuff? The general public is merely interested in stuff that ABC, GMA, PBS, CBS, PBS or BBC makes. What's the most popular thing on Youtube? Lady Gaga. To get the views of Journeyman picturs or Current, you have to make really good videos. Now if you're like Greenpeace and say that nuclear energy is bad for you, I won't watch it cause I know you're biased. Statistically and environmental records show nuclear energy is the safest energy of all. Even wind turbines kill bats.
You could be like Bob Woodruff that made a report on North Korea's new leader for ABC news, but then it all matters what kind of documentary you wish to make and how interesting it will be. I can already guess that Journeyman Pictures will publish something about Kim Jong Un and it will be interesting for me to watch. But if you make something in Windows movie maker and put it on Youtube, then I doubt it will be interesting nor will I know about it. Advertising is also important.
What kind of documentary? I know you said something about political or social issues, but there are few different ways of making documentaries.
National Geographic or BBC style? Then you'll need a proper camera, video and audio editing software (Windows movie maker doesn't count, it's not advanced enough to edit brightness, contrast, unwanted discolouration), and some music composing skills, unless if you hire or ask a composer or video editor to do it professionally for you. It really matters a lot on video quality you're using. If video quality is that of NG, Discovery or BBC documentaries, you will need a really big camera and a tripod cause those cameras have a better quality. Maybe a handheld HD cameras have a nice video quality, but that's not for proper documentaries. You can't use the same video quality that you would use for a wedding video. For a proper documentary your crew will look like this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Tournage_de_film.JPG
I think the guy on the left has glide cam gear on him and you will also need someone to record the sound because the microphone on the camera is too far from the actual sound, so it wouldn't sound realistic.
Another type of documentaries is simply user created stuff that you see on Youtube. Just use actual footage of the issue you're reporting on, let's say an oil leak videos and then you do your own commentary and video animations between the footage. GOOD Magazine on Youtube makes such mini documentaries. The good side of such videos is that you can use copyrighted material without someone filing a DMCA claim against you. Fair Use allows you to use copyrighted material for news reporting or research, archiving. And the bad side is if you do this type of documentaries, you have to make sure that your videos are entertaining to watch, or not many would watch them.
And another type of documentaries is where a handheld camera would come handy like if you're secretly filming in Myanmar and North Korea or in rainforests, deserts and steppes where carrying heavy stuff is difficult, unless if you have a proper all-terrain vehicle. Journeyman Pictures or Current TV on Youtube are distributing many such documentaries. The documentaries are usually made by TV networks such as ABC Australia, so they have proper audio and video editors before Journeyman Pictures distributes them. Current haz some viewer created content, but usually they have a proper production team with proper reporters.
You'll also need a producer - someone to finance all of this, plan the travel, hire and fire workers, or you can do it all by yourself if it's a small documentary. But what would be your position if you do a professional documentary? Camera operator? Sound technician? But if all what you want to do is to report, then all what you need is a good voice of a narrator and good presentation skills of a news reporter. Then go on auditions and someone might hire you for their project, if you have a professional voice. It's like American Idol, there are good and bad singers. You have to be good. And you have to make sure your information is correct and unbiased, otherwise you will be like Fox news.
But who will watch your stuff? The general public is merely interested in stuff that ABC, GMA, PBS, CBS, PBS or BBC makes. What's the most popular thing on Youtube? Lady Gaga. To get the views of Journeyman picturs or Current, you have to make really good videos. Now if you're like Greenpeace and say that nuclear energy is bad for you, I won't watch it cause I know you're biased. Statistically and environmental records show nuclear energy is the safest energy of all. Even wind turbines kill bats.
You could be like Bob Woodruff that made a report on North Korea's new leader for ABC news, but then it all matters what kind of documentary you wish to make and how interesting it will be. I can already guess that Journeyman Pictures will publish something about Kim Jong Un and it will be interesting for me to watch. But if you make something in Windows movie maker and put it on Youtube, then I doubt it will be interesting nor will I know about it. Advertising is also important.
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