APCOGO China vocabulary

The highest source of political power in China based on the diagram of the structure of the Chinese Government, is

• Politburo Standing Committee

• Prime Minister

• Central Military Commission

• State Council

Which political structure of the Chinese Government is the most powerful?

• The (Communist) Party

• The Government

• The Military

This is the term for the political supervision from higher bodies in the government and by comparable bodies in the CCP.

• parallel hierarchies

• fang - shou

• rule of law

• deng xiaoping

The Democracy Wall Movement followed by De-legalization of Protests is an example of

• fang-shou

• parallel hierarchies

• the long march

• marketization

Deng Xiaoping is known for

• carefully balanced blend of socialist central plan-

  ning with a capitalist market economy

• capitalism with communist characteristics

• establish of rule of law with the creation of a constitution

• a cross-country trek as Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist army pursued his communist followers.

After many years of competitive struggle, Mao’s army forced Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters to

• Taiwan

• China

• Beijing

• Mongolia

The __________________ in 1989 greatly harmed the image of the PLA, since the military was ordered to recapture the square and do so with brutal force.

• Tiananmen crisis

• Fang-shou

• Defeat of the Nationalists

• Communist Party

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the PLA has _____________________________________________.

• never held formal political power in the People’s Re-

  public.

• reconciled centralized political authority with marketization and privatization of the economy.

• taken charge of the entire law-enforcement apparatus, including the police and the judiciary.

• showed little impulse to liberalize the political process

Despite the continuing tensions between economic and political policy in China, some democratic reforms can be seen in all of the following ways except

• Some input from the National People’s Congress is accepted

  by the Politburo.

• More emphasis is placed on laws and legal procedures.

• Village elections are now semi-competitive, with choices of

  candidates and some freedom from the party’s control.

• Increasing the status of civil rights and liberties

________________________ began as a grief demonstration for the death of Hu Yaobang – a liberal who had earlier resigned from the Politburo under pressure from the conservatives.

• The Tiananmen Crisis

• Fang-Shou

• The PLA

• The Politburo Standing Committee