A country as vast and populous as China cannot be ruled as a liberal constitutional democracy, argue Chinese Communist party and government officials — and many others — who personally benefit from the country’s current political status quo. In his forthcoming book, Why China Needs Democracy, Dongxian Jiang argues that they are wrong.
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