To be a little picky, China is not a dictatorship. Rather, it is a one-party state, complete with internal dissent and power struggles. Chinese leadership exper

To be a little picky, China is not a dictatorship. Rather, it is a one-party state, complete with internal dissent and power struggles. Chinese leadership experiences more turnover than, say, North Korea. Edit: What, you don't believe me? Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_People%27s_Repu... Hu Jintao has been President since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin who became President in 1993. Some dictatorship. Not everything non-western is equivalent. That's just sloppy thinking.