Question of the Day: Who Would You Vote For As President of the World?

How could anyone ever choose a President of the World? With diverse cultures and societies, surely there cannot be one person that could govern the entire globe. Instead, today's question tries to get you thinking about entities or corporations that control international trends. International financial institutions have long been thought to guide capital markets and assist developing countries. But their reputation has been tarnished badly over the last decade leading to the question of what could or who could rule the world. The Democracy House has been a running a poll over the last few weeks for today's question. Cast your vote for the candidates our readers have chosen.

Today's feature film is the award-winning Please Vote For Me. Despite being set in a third grade class, the film provides a microcosm of the way politics operates all over the world.

Wuhan is a city in central China about the size of London, and it is here that director Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in democracy. A grade 3 class at Evergreen Primary School has their first encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year olds compete against each other for the coveted position, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents. Elections in China take place only within the Communist Party, but recently millions of Chinese voted in their version of Pop Idol. The purpose of Weijun Chen’s experiment is to determine how, if democracy came to China, it would be received. Is democracy a universal value that fits human nature?

In The News:

As China starts deliberating its new leadership in the Communist Party, Reuters reported that the possibility of younger, democratically oriented candidates are being considered.
The Free Democracy blog recently commented on China's dissatisfaction with America giving the Dalai Lama with civilian honour award. ""The move of the United States is a blatant interference with China's internal affairs which has severely hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and gravely undermined the relations between China and the United States," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a news conference"
One of guest bloggers, Boxun is valuable resource to find out what's happening in China. Self-described as "unbiased information resources about China and the World", Editor Watson Meng, provides information on number topics including internet censorship

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Question of the Day: Who Would You Vote For As President of the World?

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