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Understand you point of view. Thank you all for allowing me to express some of my thoughts in this forum. Please forgive my obtuse writing. If any of ...

Are the people round up randomly? If not, they had to be round up according to some criteria. If Xi's experiment in sending officials to live with Uig...

"Whether or not A is rubbish has nothing to do with whether B is rubbish." You are absolutely right if A and B do not communicate with each other. But...

How so? Are you suggesting a double standard?

"Last, there's the federal government. It's not so much that it's not functioning. It's just that we have problems we don't currently know how to solv...

"Whether or not the US is a democracy - it is not - has no bearing on whether or not China is. Not one bit." The issue is how to really judge whether ...

Again, you have a valid point. I met Hong Konger in discussion forum who complained that the Chief of Hong Kong government was somehow appointed by Ch...

"It's odd that you know a lot about Trump's supporters but you don't know what's happening to the Uighurs." Not at all. I am not living in Xinjiang. O...

" I am just pointing out that China claiming to be democratic is laughable. " Many Chinese also think the US is not a democracy. And Trump is the symp...

"A demonstration - what dd it take to remove Trump? What would it take to remove Xi Jinping?" Who in China is comparing Xi to Trump? In addition, Trum...

On the contrary. I think China would lose badly in the beginning IF there is a war between the US and China.

Of course, everyone can say "Two legs bad, four legs good." Again, the question is whether such opinion is based on knowledge or expertise. Wishful th...

Please tell you conception of dictatorship. Then ask yourself this question: If you don't accept dictatorship, what make you think Chinese including m...

5. Earned and unearned legitimacy One may naturally ask, given that U.S. voters had already given their consent to the winning administration, how com...

Chinese democracy passes Chinese people's smell test. In contrast, the US claims to be democratic. Does it pass the American's smell test?

4. One reason for the rapid ascendancy of voting based representative democracy is that voting confers the government the consent of the governed. Rea...

Look like some in this forum do not think China is democratic. 1. Please distinguish between Democracy and Western Democracy. China does not claim its...

What if one's free speech is another person's broken record? New speech should be accorded free speech. How about repetitive speech? Ad infinitum?

What they do if they have nothing to lose? Wont they fight to the death? What next? River of blood. So far the so called genocide is still bloodless. ...

?ltlee1 Frank, "The US is backing down from military intervention right now. And though Americans are at one another's throats continuously, there's n...

Please read my first post. I was searching response to China's "Whole Process Democracy". Why? No long ago, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had decla...

Oh, no. Xi does do something new to the Uighurs. Xi himself was sent to live with peasant to learn about how they lived and how to lift them from pove...

One can ask the same question about the US. Americans, left and right, are not happy about the political system. Yet they are still proud of their dem...

I am Chinese. I do understand that there are a lot of misunderstanding about China and things Chinese in the US. Your comment did not bother me at all...

I read the following from a monograph on democracy. I cannot recall the name of the author. Democracy is satisfying most of the people's needs and/or ...

Western democracy is for reform retail. At present, China's per capita GDP is about 1/6 to 1/5 to US. Per capita income is still lower. Implication, C...

Chinese, like all other people, want good life or happiness which is an intrinsic good. Political liberty like voting, at most, is an instrumental goo...

Give them education and hope for a better life: now you have a problem. — frank "Correct. And China's communist rulers know this. Hence the regime nee...

It seems to me that posting a link would trigger moderation. I won't post the link. Search youtube with v=_tOtVQ7cNWY The video clip was made by the U...

Marven Minsky's Society of Minds is decades old. The new idea is "A Thousand Brains" by Jeff Hawkins. The book is based on Mountcastle's work on cereb...

Let me say this, the oneness of the self is the result of continuous reconciliation. That is, one compares the sensory inputs of last moment t with se...

How about contend? One writer had differentiated between pleasure means "I feel good. I want more." And contend means "I fee good, I don't want more."

Different versions oneself play different roles, But is this a manifestation of more than one mind?

I thought ego, superego, and id are referring to one's consciousness and subconsciousness. All of them are parts of ones self. If they were independen...

Do you know that one billion of Chinese had travel outside of China during the last decade? And every years about 300,000 students had been studied in...

We all have a self. But A mind? What is an undivided mind? Or in what sense a mind is an integrated one? Is a mind of a supposition because TOM.

1. When is a dictatorship a dictatorship? Are you implying Chinese are dumb? Hence they live happily under dictatorship. 2. Don't agree. 3. "militaris...

In the sense of no one should shout "Fire" in a crowded theater with normal movie goers. Harmony is important.

1. The US did not have opposition party at the beginning too. There were factions. Political parties was a later invention. 2. Post war Japan is large...

Of course one can pass any judgement as one sees fit. My question is this: Does he/she judge from a position of knowledge and expertise? Or does he/sh...

Implicit in you comment is that Chinese people are dumb. Hence they are willing to tolerate a government, however undemocratic, through thick and thin...

Democracy begins the people. Not committee from foreign countries. Whether a country is democratic is for the people to decide.

Did someone not pronounce "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as unalienable? A "of the people, by the people, for the people" democracy wou...

Chinese students had been taught about the significancy of Mr De(mocracy) and Mr Sci(ence) for over 100 years. The Nationalist government (i.e ROC) ha...

Current day China democracy does not have a lot of commonality with Nazi German. For starter, China was not forced to pay war reparation they can't af...

Not really. At least no epidemic of despair.

Democracy and billionaires are not mutually exclusive. In China, one does not need to spend billions to participate politics meaningfully.

I had tried to explain several hours ago why Chinese people understand the importance of democracy. And they are searching for the right kind of democ...

1. How long did Nazi German last after 1938? Many in the US had predict China's collapse. However, China is getting better year after year for decades...

When is a democracy not a democracy? — Banno Are the people happy? Do the people trust the government? BTW, I read the article discover this forum whi...