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This is not unique to China by any means, and it's one of the reasons I stop reading comments where "the U.S." (drones, genocide, just as bad, etc,.) isn't foll
by wrongc0ntinent 13y ago
This is not unique to China by any means, and it's one of the reasons I stop reading comments where "the U.S." (drones, genocide, just as bad, etc,.) isn't followed by "government".
- Ankaios 13y agoThe U.S. is different, though, because our government was created by the people, and we claim that its powers were delegated to it by us. In the U.S., the buck ultimately stops with us, the citizens.
- jpatokal 13y agoChina claims the same: it's a People's Republic, after all. Sure, there's a difference between a notionally meritocratic single-party system and a notionally democratic two-party system, but it's not quite as large as the average US history textbook would have you believe.
- samspenc 13y agoBig difference being: no elections, and the Party keeps itself alive by appointing leaders who will keep it alive. Citizen's rights? The Party doesn't have time to worry about that.