USA and European democracy's accountability is
after election, in which case, the mass may elect an a$$hole and regret to make him step down. In history there are quite some figures who are very good at manipulating the mass, such as Hitler, Mussolini, or Trump. When he step down, damage was made.
You can clearly see most of leaders in developing countries are not accountable at all comparing with China in recent 40 years. Many leaders in developed countries are opportunities, such as Sarkozy, Francios Hollande, Silvio Berlusconi and so on. George W. Bush has no brain, Obama is a typical politician who focus on votes only, and then Trump.
Selecting a wise leader in western political system is almost impossible after cold war. Most of the leaders only interested in either his own interest or party interest. Of course the mass can regret and abandon the politicians.
Italians regretted repeatedly:
2011 Mario Monti 1 year, 163 days in office
2013 Enrico Letta 300 days in office
2014 MatteoRenzi 2 years, 294 days in office
2016 Paolo Gentiloni 1 year, 171 days in office
2018 Giuseppe Conte 1 year, 9 days in office
Japanese regretted repeatedly:
1989 Sōsuke Uno 69 days
1989 Toshiki Kaifu 2 years and 88 days
1991 Kiichi Miyazawa 1 year and 278 days
1993 Morihiro Hosokawa 263 days
1994 Tsutomu Hata 64 days
1994 Tomiichi Murayama 1 year and 196 days
1996 Ryūtarō Hashimoto 2 years and 201 days
1998 Keizō Obuchi 2 years and 201 days
2000 Yoshirō Mori 1 year and 22 days
2001 Junichirō Koizumi 5 years and 154 days
2006 Shinzō Abe 1 year and 1 day
2007 Yasuo Fukuda 365 days
2008 Tarō Asō 358 days
2009 Yukio Hatoyama 266 days
2010 Naoto Kan 1 year and 87 days
2011 Yoshihiko Noda 1 year and 116 days
Western system can only work when economy is good. When economy goes bad, chaos happens if not revolution.
Regarding human rights, I have said enough. it's abused, domestically and internationally. In USA, human rights is excuse for self-interest on a lot of issues. Internationally, human rights is the tool to demonize other countries, otherwise USA won't sleep in bed with Saudi Arabia Mr. Bone Saws. I am fine with it, but I am not comfortable with the hypocrisy.
A good system should select leader more wisely. I think US system should learn from China on this regard.
China meritocracy has long history and use
imperial examination system (科举制度) to select elites which is different from western one which is base on blood. China has been using imperial examination system since Sui Dynasty(隋朝) which is 1400 years ago.
The central goverment has
schools(中央党校) and
Organization Department（中共组织部）. There is a TED video on youtube for this:
I am writing this without payment from anyone. I am seriously comparing different political systems. We Chinese are open to learn from any political systems as long as it fit us.
