China’s president goes to Europe and says that democracy doesn’t work for China, so they must have a communist dictatorship forever
Reuters reports today on Xi Jinping’s (the Chinese president) visit to the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where many of the European Union’s future diplomats and Commission officials are in training.
China’s constitution enshrines the Communist Party’s long-term “leading” role in government, though it allows the existence of various other political parties under what is calls a “multi-party cooperation system”.
But all are subservient to the Communist Party.
Activists who call for pluralism are regularly jailed and criticism of China’s one-party, authoritarian system silenced.
“Constitutional monarchy, imperial restoration, parliamentarism, a multi-party system and a presidential system, we considered them, tried them, but none worked,” Xi said, adding that because of its unique historical and social conditions, China can’t copy a political system or development model from other countries “because it would not fit us and it might even lead to catastrophic consequences”.
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“College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where many of the European Union’s future diplomats and Commission officials are in training.”
Except for Mintoffian fossil Il-Guy from Malta.
He’s going to embarrass Malta yet another time. Can some start some Facebook page opposing Karmenu Vella’s nomination?
What utter rubbish. The last Emperor was deposed barely a hundred years ago. Democracy didn’t work in China because Mao declared the PRC in 1949. Dissidents are jailed and executed for “disturbing social harmony”, but China’s government never wonders why so many people are leaving.
Are u so sure about that.. Maybe you should stay in china for a year and find out if they are ready or not.. Even the PRC are worried they can’t restore law n order to its ppl under its own government.
But this should not come a surprise. Europe is a non-democracy also. We have unelected bureaucrats running the show and when a country says no to a referendum as Ireland did on the Treaty of Lisbon it was forced to vote again!
You don’t risk being arrested for stating your opinion though.
When George W Bush was asked about Iraqis pouring into the streets of Baghdad calling for Americans to leave, he replied that was exactly what the US wanted in Iraq.
The blight of island democracies.
When this particular island said yes to EU membership, it had to hold an election to confirm the result.
Now, the man who led the anti-EU campaign is running for membership of the EU parliament, his then sidekicks are now variously president, prime minister, minister of tourism (and European Commission nominee), and minister of foreign affairs, and four of his I-will-die-Labour supporters are currently MEPs and hoping to be re-elected.
He may be right after all.
What good came out of toppling dictators in Egypt, Libya, Iraq?
WE have to admit that some nations can’t live under a democratic government. They are simply not ready for it yet.
[Daphne – Malta still isn’t ready for democracy, Mr Loporto, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to live in a dictatorship just because we are outnumbered by people who reason as you do.]
Again, this is the country the government wants to cooperate with on cultural matters. No wonder ‘pastizzi’ are the pinnacle of Maltese culture for so many here.
The biggest catastrophe that could hit China is the more fair distribution of the wealth of the nation which never goes beyond the diaspora of party leaders and members.
I don’t know about China though i see no reason why democracy shouldn’t work there but one thing for sure is that democracy does NOT work in the Arab world.
Just look at Iraq and Egypt. Two perfect examples where both countries were much much better off under a dictatorship especially in the case of Egypt. Dare I say, Libya was probably better off too.
Syria at least is somewhat managing to control the Islamist terrorist rebels.