CHINA'S position in the modern world is an incredible paradox. On one hand, China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, an organization devoted to maintaining peaceful relations between countries, promoting justice and progress and ensuring human rights. On the other hand, China is a dictatorship that represses its people, threatens its neighbor states and goes so far as to censor its Internet users. Such a paradox cannot be allowed to continue if true global peace and progress are to be achieved.
Search the Internet for topics such as freedom, democracy or human rights from within China, and you will get the return "prohibited language in text, please delete." This applies even to foreign-owned companies as "Internet-related companies are obliged to accept such limitations as a condition of doing business in China." John J. Tkacik, Jr., of the Heritage Foundation, calls this "China's Orwellian Internet." Such censorship of its people is commonplace in China and other countries, but what makes China unique is its relation to the United Nations and the rest of the world.
Not only is China a member of the United Nations, but it is a permanent member with veto power on the Security Council. This is despite China's direct contradiction of the UN's mandate and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declares among other things that "everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
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