China's socialism with Chinese characteristics vs western democracy

[beijingwalker]

China's socialism with Chinese characteristics vs western democracy
leadership selection based on meritocracy vs leadership through election

 

[W.11]

dictatorship is a double edged sword, it has worked for china, else where it has not, another example is rwanda, the dictatorship seem to be woking miracles for the country.

but we also have examples of singapore, japan, korea, which are not dictatorship.

the soviet also applied socialism and failed miserably.

democracy is highly subjective as well, a well informed, educated and aware public can have fruitful democracy, in a country like pakistan, it has been a mere tool for feudals obtaining perpetual control over politics.

china's economic success is after adopting capitalism, and western models, not its flopped socialistic economic system.

regards

 

[beijingwalker]

but we also have examples of singapore, japan, korea, which are not dictatorship.

singapore, japan, korea were not actually democracy when they first started to develop. The video says something that is right, the great wealth of western powers was not from running their countries through democracy, it was from colonisation and plunder of other countries by force and their military might.

dictatorship is a double edged sword, it has worked for china, else where it has not, another example is rwanda, the dictatorship seem to be woking miracles for the country.

It depends on how people define "dictatorship", China has been always run by a collective leadership after Mao, Communist party has democracy within the party, no one has absolute power as the west tries to fool the world to believe.

china's economic success is after adopting capitalism, and western models, not its flopped socialistic economic system.

Capitalism and democracy are two different things, what China has is controlled and regulated capitalism.

 

[jamahir]

The video says something that is right, the great wealth of western powers was not from running their countries through democracy, it was from colonisation and plunder of other countries by force and their military might.

In the debate about dictatorship vs Western "democracy" I will add to your point about military might. USA has so many homeless people yet instead of building free good-quality homes for them the successive governments have spent uncountable money and resources in invading other countries like Libya which had no homeless people. Irony.

 

[beijingwalker]

I don't know much about this KJ Reports, it's surely not a Chinese source, the video also points out many weaknesses of the Chinese system such as connections and nepotism, but check the comment section many comments saying that this video is clearly made based on the facts, not unverifiable propagandas.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

The whole premise of democracy (and communism to be fair) is that the ELITES no longer rule, it is the PEOPLE who rule. And that there is a rule of law which applies equally to both the elites and the commoners.

The truth is that this never ever happens. The elites always rule, the people get whatever the elites leave for them.

So leaving all ideology aside, the question is to build a system which works at least to some degree. Coronavirus is cruelly revealing the strains in these systems, some have managed to handle it, some have failed utterly. It has less to do with ideology and more to do with implementation.

 

[beijingwalker]

I don't think China avidly advocates and promotes her governing system like the west does for their western democracy, China just doesn't like being demonized by the west and being called the root of all evils. the west is pulling no punches attacking China's social and governing systems 24/7, But they just can't explain how China achieved so much under this system.