2006-08-05 11:24:34 · 7 answers · asked by waggy 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I forgot where I first heard this, but my favorite answer is: Any country with 'people's' or 'republic' in the name is neither.
They can call it whatever they want. 'People's Republic' is common it the names of communist countries.
2006-08-05 11:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about Taiwan, which has a full name of the Democratic Republic of China. Hope this helps to explain
2006-08-05 18:30:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same Reason the communists in Russia called it the United Soviet Socialist Republic to fool the people in the country into thinking they are going to a say in what happens there. Because you know that communist countries are all about the people really.LOL
2006-08-05 18:34:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason East Germany was the Democratic German Republic. It's an Orwellian thing.
2006-08-05 18:28:13 · answer #4 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because any goverment type which is not Monarchy is called a Republic. Do not mistake it with democracy. So china is a Republic. There is nothing wrong with this.
2006-08-05 18:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by neuro 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just a communist ploy to try and fool their people. The people don't believe it and neither does the rest of the world.
In the old USSR, the russians had a joke, That the Government, pretended to pay them wages, and they pretended to work.
As Lincoln once said, "You can fool some of the people, some of the time, but not all of the people, all of the time".
2006-08-05 18:31:28 · answer #6 · answered by johnb693 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communism fools the people into believing they have some control over the government, in the U.S.S.R. they had elections, but the results didn't matter..
2006-08-05 18:27:56 · answer #7 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋