Question: Let's say you took a bunch of indicators and said "I can prove China is a totalitarian state because it has a bad score on each of these indicators".

Question: Let's say you took a bunch of indicators and said "I can prove China is a totalitarian state because it has a bad score on each of these indicators". Don't you believe that western "democratic" states probably have embarrassing scores on many of them? My point is: 1 - "Totalitarian" is a tricky concept to deconstruct 2 - The direction western democratic countries are taking is worrying me