Nationalization

China has a vast infrastructure plan to compensate for the enormity in actual size of land that makes up the country. China has a telecommunications infrastructure that continues to expand, especially in the last few decades. China’s telecommunications industry is nationalized like many of its other industries. The three major operators are China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, all providers of mobile and land phone lines. (Central Intelligence Agency). Like previously mentioned, these three companies are nationalized with the major owners of each being China. All TV and radio is monitored and approved by the government. The broadcast media is also a nationalized industry in China. Even foreign programs must be first approved by the Communist party. The Central Propaganda Department comes out with what is permissible and not permissible (Central Intelligence Agency). The total distance of roadways in China is 4,106,387 km with 3,453,890 km of them actually paved road (Central Intelligence Agency). The total distance of railways in China is 191,270 km (Central Intelligence Agency). China has an extremely long coastline. There are many major seaports along this coast. Some of them are Dalian, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Tianjin (Central Intelligence Agency). The total amount of waterways that are considered navigable are around 110,000 km (Central Intelligence Agency). China is home to approximately 507 airports large and small (Central…

Discussion The main result of this study was the gender difference. Males tended to favour privatisation and have less prosocial thoughts than females which was an unexpected finding. However you do have to take into account the number of participants in each gender when determining the average answers for each question. The control group responded as expected. Those primed with money did not show any difference in support for special or universal programmes which was not the selfish or self…

Instead of settling for compromises like the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 where some states were ‘free states’ and some states were ‘slave states,’ nationalization gave Congress the power to make laws that all states had to follow. The bottom-up movement led by activists like MLK led to the commitment of the government to improve civil rights. President Kennedy announced his support for African Americans, which was the first time federal agencies could independently identify…

One argument against nationalization explores the effect of mass immigration on America’s natural resources. Wooldridge points out “the long-term ramifications facing their progeny as water, energy, and resources exhaust themselves from sheer over-use and over-extension.” Nonrenewable resources are a pressing concern facing our future generations and the race for green alternatives shows an impressive drive for constructive developments. The solution to these problems could be hidden in the mind…

Nationalization of the Suez Canal An analysis through Prospect Theory On 26th July, 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and the reason that he gave for the nationalization was that he required funds for the building for the Aswan dam. Though in reality it was an act of revenge against the French, British and Americans because they had recently refused to fund the building of Aswan Dam and he wanted to establish Egypt as the leader of middle-east by embarking an end to the…

1.8: Mossadegh and Oil Nationalization Crisis Amid the development to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, the US-Iranian relationship confronted an emergency in 1951. Iran's oil industry was the most essential industry in the nation. It was a guideline wellspring of remote trade incomes. Be that as it may, it was under the control of British. For a considerable length of time, the British government had gotten from the Iranian oil operation for more salary than the Iranian government itself.…

In pursuing a very different direction of the passage “a house divided against itself cannot stand” and the Fredrick Douglas excerpt[i], the opposing argument remains, centralization takes away individual freedom. Justin Buckley Dyer in his work, Revisiting Dred Scott: Prudence, Providence, And the Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship stated the Court logic of the Scott decision[ii]. Dyer rightly surmised, “The principle announced by the Court, in other words, tended toward the resolution of…

Carlos Castillo Armas which led to a massive 36 year civil war between this government and their citizens. This civil war was bloody and led to 200,000 Guatemalan deaths or disappearances many at the hands of soldiers provided and trained by the United States. Mohammad Mossadegh’s attempt to nationalize oil could be considered communist in nature because it is similar to what communist leaders in other countries did to their land, their industry and their banks. His attempt to nationalize oil…

Ervand Abrahamian is one of the leading experts on modern Iran and has written extensively about the history of the country. In his most recent piece of work, The Coup, he covers the nationalization of oil in Iran, and how the poor negotiations among Britain, the United States and Iran led to a coup orchestrated by the CIA and Britain to overthrow the leader of Iran, Mohammad Moseddeq. There have been several books written covering these events, but in The Coup Abrahamian challenges three…

was characterized by social conservatism and an absence of Quebec autonomy, and was notorious for bribery and corruption. The ensuing changes in Quebec during “La Revolution Tranquille” encompassed a variety of social and governmental shifts that had their origin in a more assertive and secular nationalism. The primary goal of the Lesage government was “Le Rattrapage” or the “catching up” of Quebec to the remainder of Canada. The myriad reforms imposed by the Lesage regime from 1960 to 1966…