Re:Western Arrogance and China
by smalltalkcoder on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:52PM
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> It's not a democracy, but it's not the dystopia it's caricatured as in Western media.
It's not liberal democracy. It's not democracy as defined in the West.
It's the Chinese model of democracy, or what is known as "whole-process people's democracy."
And it works for the Chinese. That's the big takeaway.
That's why the Chinese regard China as the most democratic nation in the world, according to Latana's Democracy Perception Index 2022.
Re:Western Arrogance and China
by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:11PM
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It's just as silly to buy into the Chinese government's own propaganda about "whole process democracy" as it is to buy into Western fear propaganda about China.
Re:Western Arrogance and China
by smalltalkcoder on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:07PM
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Why is whole-process people's democracy silly? Just because you don't believe in it?
That's what the author meant by Western arrogance. We in the West think we are entitled to define what is and isn't democracy. On what basis? Because we dominate the world politically?
Re:Western Arrogance and China
by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:29PM
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Because it has nothing to do with democracy. I'm the farthest thing from a Western chauvinist, but I'm also not a naif.
That's up from 100 million in 2013, so the number was rapidly increasing before the pandemic (and it will probably begin rapidly increasing again).
Regardless, the point stands that at the moment, there's no mass rush to escape China. Most people in China think life is getting better year for year, and are fairly optimistic about the future of the country. It's not a democracy, but it's not the dystopia it's caricatured as in Western media.
0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1068495/china-number-of-...