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Just a reminder that Taiwan, a country deeply steeped in traditional Chinese culture, is a functioning multi-party democracy. Perhaps Mainland China is too big
by my_first_acct 8y ago
Just a reminder that Taiwan, a country deeply steeped in traditional Chinese culture, is a functioning multi-party democracy.
Perhaps Mainland China is too big, or too poor, to become a stable democracy at this time, but Chinese culture should not by itself be a reason for China to remain a "bureaucratic autocracy".
- YorkshireSeason 8y agoAnd that's why the PRC (= Mainland) is trying everything it can to take over Taiwan, and subvert / destroy this democracy. After all the Chinese Communist Party's convenient narrative that justifies it's 'eternal' rule is just this, that the Chinese people neither want, nor need multi-party democracy. (See also: Iran vs Saudi-Arabia. The former -- despite all the imperfections of its current mode of government -- is a living proof that Muslims don't need the iron fist of a hereditory ruling family.)