Author Question: What has the United States gained from the rise of China that makes China and the United States ... (Read 109 times)

Starlight · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

What has the United States gained from the rise of China that makes China and the United States partners and allies? In what ways is the growth of China a challenge, or even a threat, to the United States?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What are civil rights? What does the Constitution say about them? Why did the idea of civil rights appear comparatively late in the development of the United States?

What will be an ideal response?

pami445 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1, Note that the rise of China has provided a growing market for American goods, a source of cheap consumer goods for Americans to buy, and an opportunity for the United States to expand public programs without raising taxes because of China's willingness to invest in American debt at low rates of return.
2, Outline some of the ways China is or may become a challenge, such as having more influence in the world's economic and diplomatic affairs, and improvement of its military capabilities.
3, Mention other concerns about China such as human rights violations, the migration of U.S. jobs to China, its refusal to participate in efforts against North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons programs, and the possibility that China itself could become a nuclear threat.

Answer to Question 2

An ideal response will:
1, Define civil rights as government guarantees of equality for people in the United States, regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity.
2, Identify that neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights said anything about equality beyond insisting that all Americans are equally entitled to due process in the courts.
3, Discuss how Americans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were more interested in protecting individuals from government than in guaranteeing political rights through government.