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Can China inspire a rethinking of liberal democracy?
Still, it is worth analyzing the intricacies of China’s political system especially when there has been a concerted effort to push back against the recently held Democracy Summit cohosted by the United States.
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China's President Xi Jinping leaves the podium following his speech in Hong Kong after a ceremony to inaugurate the city's new leader and government on July 1, 2022, on the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from the United Kingdom to China. (Reuters/Pool/Selim Chtayti)
Can Wenling, a mid-size county-level town in the eastern province of Zhejiang of China, become a template for better, more responsive governance in Asia?
I have always been intrigued by the complexities of China’s political system.
As explained by Ian Johnson, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in a video, China is not just a totalitarian regime as if a “Mussolini” were in power.
It is something different and we should not fall into the temptation of drawing generic simplifications and equating President’s Xi Jinping hegemonic and worrying expansion of China’s ambitions with a full dictatorship.
In short, the People’s Republic of China cannot be compared with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of the supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
Now objectively speaking, there is no doubt that, under President Xi, there has been a hardening against any resemblances of limited civil and political liberties that were in place before his rise to power.
