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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by xyzzy123 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:28AM (#43254273)
I feel like you have it the wrong way around. There are a lot of political setups where you "elect someone" that are absolutely not democracies. I can be an authoritarian supreme leader who allows citizens to elect who will run their province (from my choice of candidates of course!) and I really don't think it's reasonable to claim that this situation is a "democracy".

It's autocracy with democratic characteristics.

I agree your criticisms of democracy in the US and Taiwan have some validity but in terms of deciding whether China might be a democracy or not they seem like whataboutism.

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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by throwway120385 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:28AM (#43255912)
Russia is a great example of this.
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by cultofmetatron on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @07:56PM (#43261396)
> I can be an authoritarian supreme leader who allows citizens to elect who will run their province (from my choice of candidates of course!)

by that definition, the united states wouldn't even be called a democracy

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