“Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and personal attacks will not be approved.”

Did my posting include hate, obscenity or personal attacks?

In fact, is my posting even out of topic when we are discussing about political parties in China?

Are you here to inform or are you here to influence?

Whether China is democratic or authoritarian or totalitarian should be decided by looking at facts on the ground, or by asking people who live there — and these facts (as John Kennedy points out) and people don’t corroborate your views.

I for one have never heard any Chinese tell me how democratic this country is.

But as always, it does not matter how democratic China becomes. China can have many many political parties. China is already having regular elections every 5 years. But as long as the Communist Party continues to enjoy popular support and win these elections, the West will refuse to call China a Democracy.

It is like in Singapore. The ruling party wins every election, but they don’t call Singapore a democracy despite they having elections and enjoying popular support, instead they give it some junkie other name like “Authoritarian”. Or in Iran where they have so many candidates and a very competitive electorate, at the end of the day, they still don’t call Iran a democracy but some other name – a “theocracy”.

When they finally have to admit China is a democracy, they will invent some other name to give to describe China’s political system instead of just calling it a democracy because they will refuse to admit it.