Is china a democracy?

Chinese who supported the Communist Party or held anti-democratic perspectives had long expressed skepticism towards Western style democracy as incompatible with traditionalist Chinese culture. They hold that government is legitimate not when people influence it but when it represents their higher interests. read more

New Democracy was an intermediary stage unlike western parliamentary, electoral democracy but not yet communism. After the war, the Nationalist's "political tutelage" ended with the promulgation of the Constitution of the Republic of China. read more

China’s leaders do not think of democracy as people in the West generally. “Our objectives of carrying out the socialist modernization drive are to catch up with the developed capitalist countries in terms of economy and to create a higher level of democracy with more substance than that of capitalist countries in terms of politics,” Deng Xiaoping said long ago. read more

It is hardly surprising that in respect of the Democracy Index compiled by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, ranging from 1-10, in 2007 the first country (Norway) scored 9.87, the last country (North Korea) scored 1.08, and China scored 3.10. So, regarding democracy, China is somewhat better than North Korea (by 2 points), but much worse than Norway (by 7 points). read more