How close is China to becoming a democracy?

Question

and will the Olympics have any effect?

Answer 1

Yes, China is not the constitutional democracy we are, but I do believe there is much more democracy in China today than you realize. If "democracy" means to you a national presidential election between two competing partisans, of course there is no democracy in China. If, though, democracy means there is a system by which the interests of the masses of people are taken into account by the political leaders, and the political leaders who do this have come from the common clay, then there is more democracy in China than there is, say, in India, where there are cultural barriers that prevent leaders from arising out of the masses. Once you see this, as I began to see it on my first visit to China in 1999, you may be able to get the rest of China into focus.

In my last visit to China, before last month, two things astonished me. I found an economic boom unfolding whose implications are exciting for the world, and never once during nine days in Peking and Shanghai did I feel I was in a Communist country. China is running, not walking, down the capitalist road.

If this is what "no democracy" can do...well..!!

Answer 2

Russia's attempt to democratise its u . s . a . weakened the critical government, and bring about the fall of the U.S.. China does no longer make that mistake. And in spite of how democratic it extremely is, opposing international locations will constantly locate reasons to worry China's militia arsenal and status military. This "democracy" banner is basically a bandwagon, American politicians say it to have the better ethical floor in a controversy, they have not got self assurance in it (they do no longer even enforce democracy interior the lawyer-bogged Senate, how can they declare to be for the folk?)

Answer 3

olympics will have no effect, and china is about a century or so away from democracy at best.

Answer 4

China's Democracy will never be the same as the USA

1. No Fake Fox News.....they already have the Government Media

2. No Paris Hilton on Fox

3. No Chinese Idol making fun of Mentally Handicap Chinese on Fox

4. Chinese Bush would had been hang

5. No gaylifornia

6. No Jew York

7. No Conservative Chinese waving a Southern Chinese Flag

Answer 5

China is a dictatorship, it is nowhere close to being a democracy.

The Olympics will not change China any more than they did Nazi Germany.

Answer 6

china is politically undemocratic and they follow the economics of capitalism more than the western countries. Olympics have no effect. but one thing is to be accepted by all that Chinese are patriotic.

Answer 7

It has a long ways to go. think if china looses in the olympics they going to have a exuction squad for the players.

Answer 8

China and democracy - both are parallel lines and cannot meet each other

Answer 9

how close are united states? man.., you got to understand - democracy is different, and it's not 100% anywhere in the world

Answer 10

I don't know how close they are.. but the Olympics will have no impact.