The Chinese government's White Paper on American democracy makes for interesting reading. https://www.mfa.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202112/t20211205_10462535.html …
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Fair take really. I was expecting something crazy.
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And, as expected, the focus is on paper (Bill of Rights, Constitution, writings about Democracy in America, etc.), and not enslavement, Native American genocide and dispossession, etc., or in other words, the theory, not the actual practice.
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One person one vote?
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I mean they have Twitter trolls trashing democracy. To be clear, that's not some deep intrepretation on my part. I mean tweets that actual use words like "democracy" or "voting" as things that should be mocked. They're just covering all their rhetorical bases. 1/x
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It's like how people who say we don't know how much climate change is manmade or that climate action is too expensive never attack the outright deniers. They're actually in league with each other. It's a similar strategy from the Chinese government. 2/x
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The bureaucrats that write government white papers are the same the world over.
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In fact there is no "Chinese government's critique" in that article. All it does is quote some of the thousands of authors who have rightly criticised the worst of American values and institutions. Americans should REALLY look at their own feet.
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Notice the value of earnestness in the conclusion. And the exhortation for the US to take on more responsibility in the world.
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