Who said China has no democracy! Rita Bai in Beijing: Got my voter card today as Beijing is electing deputies to the district-level people’s congress, not familiar with China’s political system, individual citizens directly elect deputies to the people’s congresses at the city/district levels 誰說中國沒有民主！ 今天拿到選民證，因為北京正在選舉區級人大代表，不熟悉中國的政治制度，公民個人直接選舉市/區級人大代表.
this is a good (2 min) video by Political scientist Mark Triffitt, explaining why Western “democracy” is outdated and can’t work, is inapplicable to China, and why China’s system of democratic centralism with its intense, recursive process of feedback and consultation is the future of good governance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZAx8bJkruU
Triffitt also points out the stupidity and hypocrisy of trying to “export” the US’s failed “liberal democracy” to other countries:“Jawboning China to adopt more democratic practices likewise reflects the same bizarre tendency among many of America’s political and policy elites to promote what are damaged goods at home as being somehow “ripe for export”.”
https://theconversation.com/us-democracy-trumps-all-as-a-dysfunctional-disgrace-52858
This failure is the failure of the Western Liberalism itself (note its 7 rearguard actions as it retreats in ignominy): The biggest barrier to understanding Western liberalism’s regression is liberalism itself. Liberalism does not seem to be, nor sees itself, as an ideology. There are no goose-stepping armies or Little Red Books. Yet it is ideology because it presents a totalising view of the world. Only its political and economic systems can deliver universal progress, harmony and happiness. The problem with ideologies is they convince us—their adherents—to believe they cannot fail. This leads us inevitably to blame failure on leaders, not the delivery system.
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-wests-age-of-retreat/
More detail on how and why Liberalism failed:“While liberal market crises as well as malaise within liberal democratic systems have been manifested before, this thesis argues that post-1990s dysfunctions go beyond mere statistics and other descriptive information that relate to specific problems occurring within both systems. The overall crisis for 21st century liberal systems is unprecedented because they derive from a basic, systemic inability on the part of both systems to decipher the de-linear world around it. Thus the unprecedented and intractable nature of the overall crisis is shaped by liberal systems being fundamentally unsuited for the world they are hegemonically charged with ordering. The unprecedented nature of the crisis is further shaped by the incapacity of the liberal order to understand and acknowledge the systematic nature of its systems’ problems, thus rendering it unable to strategically address them…
This thesis has highlighted China’s contemporary political and economic development – arguably the most significant development in the world economy and polity over the last two decades – for two reasons. First, to further demonstrate how the dynamics of political and economic activity have become intensely delinear by positing China’s recent development at the heart of Radical Modernity and second, to demonstrate liberalism’s growing inability to understand the nature of China’s development in a way which speaks to its growing incapacity to explain the 21st century political and economic world overall. According to liberal theory and discourse, China is an exception writ large. On the one hand, liberal theory and discourse argues that without liberal democracy to support its liberalising economy, China must inevitably collapse. Yet this line of arguments runs counter to the other dominant discourse regarding early 21st century China that asserts that China is carving out a new and unique direction in managing political and economic activity which is more strategic and superior to that of the liberal West. These accounts are not only incorrect in the sense that they provide a highly un-nuanced and empirically challenged view of China’s development. They are also conceptually unsustainable. The unprecedented size, speed and complexity of its transformation into one of the worlds’ most dynamic and largest political economies means that China, by definition, cannot be an exception.
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/39778
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/39778/311453_Mark%20Triffitt%20PhD%20thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.themandarin.com.au/97588-the-wests-age-of-retreat/
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