China ‘will never be a multiparty democracy’
10th March 2011
Why this qualifies as news is difficult to understand. China has no tradition of democracy, multi-party or otherwise, and the fact that the current one-party state masquerades as a Communist dictatorship (which in turn masquerade as representative governments) is just multiple layers of window-dressing. China is China, and this autocratic government is not appreciably different from any other autocratic government they’ve had in the last 6,000 years; it just uses a Clever Plastic Disguise with modern buzzwords.