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Democracy is not perfect and my country is not perfect, but democracy is still preferable to any other system of government. You can try and keep it at bay, but in the end, people want a say in their government, people want their government to be accountable to them. Some of what you say is true about US actions, and it is hotly debated in America, but debated, and argued over, and elections held over, and reported in the free press, it is and allowed to be. I can go where I want, say what I want, argue and voice any opinion I want, worship how I want, say anything I want of any elected leader in my country, and elected freely and fairly, they all are. Why can I do this? Democracy. Those leaders work for me. I don't work for them. My Congressman and Senators, my president, must ask for my support to keep their jobs. Even if China continues to become rich, it's impact on history will remain muted as long as she clings to a one party state and is frightened of her own people's liberty. You mentioned north Korea. My father fought to keep south Korea from being taken over by the communist in 1950-53. When he was there, it was one of the most impoverished countries in the hemisphere. After the war, one Korea went the way of fear and oppression, of the murderous ideology of communism. In the other, first came economic freedom, then over time, the people demanded political freedom and got it. One need only look at a picture of the two countries at night to know where those two different ideologies lead to.
China has achieved the success that it has over these last few decades because she has admitted internally, what a failure communism is economically and what a success freedom is economically. Despite the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protest, eventually, the Chinese people will demand their political freedom as well. You are in Sweden? Look around. Why do you think the Swedes have not only a high standards of living, but freedom, a good life without fear, with good education, health care, police, courts, press, etc., without restrictions on what they want to believe, worship, write, speak, or how they want to live? Why do you think people from around the world are trying to get into Sweden any way they can, (just like the USA), and not out of it? It isn't an accident that they have achieved so much. Sweden looks the way it does because the people of Sweden demand it of their government. They hold their government accountable for an excellent education system, good health care, fair and open courts, human rights. President Reagan called it the test of the gates. People can argue and debate all they want, but as he said, the facts speak for themselves; where there is freedom, people will try to get to it. Where their is oppression, people will flee from it. How many people want to immigrate to Iran? North Korea, indeed, even China? Maybe some from north Korea do, but tens of thousands of Chinese come to America, year after year, legally and illegally, to find a new life in a free country.
I would like to make one thing clear about the Americans who fought the Korean War. It was not because of the western ideology. America was afraid of the spread of Communism back in those days and that's why they were involved in the Vietnam war and the Korean war. During the Cold War era America indoctrinated its citizens about the danger of Communism and to fear them.
You speak of political freedom and that your government is working for you. I have friends in other EU countries and their government don't listen to its people. Those EU citizens want their country to drop Greece and stop financial aid to the bankrupt country but none of the leaders want to listen. All their tax money go to that poor country and how is that gonna benefit them? They ain't gonna see those money back just judging the current situation in Greece. This is just to show you that in a democratic country politicians don't always make decisions for the benefit of the citizens but good for their own pockets.
What gives you the right to criticize China for having only one party? There would be less disputes and decisions can be taken quickly unlike the constant fighting between the Democrats and the Republicans. China has made good progress these past decades and continue to do so, there's no need for a foreigner like you to tell China how politics should be practiced according to American standards. North Korea is ruled by dictatorship whereas Chinese people have considerable freedom to do what they want, they just don't have the choice to pick party members. Please don't talk about human rights when the whole world knows that your country torture pow in guatanomo bay. Just visit some Chinese cities and see for yourself how Chinese people are living and whether they are suppressed or not.