Beijing Review

Understanding China’s Democracy

Without any research and without learning much about the democratic systems in socialist republics, and above all, without realizing how much development China has accomplished under its concept of democracy, the West, particularly the United States, has constantly tried to impose its own values on China and feels that they are the sole criteria for democracy on planet Earth.

It is a fact that people cannot thrive under a system of which they do not approve, or a system that feels unsuitable for them. They can by no means feel happy or satisfied and it would become impossible for them to deliver even 10 percent of what the Chinese nation

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