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Will China Become Democratic?(lecture by Arthur Waldron)(Brief Article)
Will China Becom Democratic? Arthur Waldron, "A Free and Democratic China?" in Commentary (November 2000), 165 West 56th Street, New York, New York 10022.
Waldron, director of Asian studies at he American Enterprise Institute, suggests a democratic China could emerge as the result of prolonged upheaval.
China has never been a democracy. In 1908, the Chinese emperor promised to create an elected legislature, but hadn't done so by the time Sun Yat-sen overthrew the empire in 1911. Sun and his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, created some organizations that appeared democratic, and occasionally held elections. But in reality Sun and Chiang were both strongmen, comparable to Spain's Franco or Italy's Mussolini.
Waldron offers several paths for Chinese democracy. One would be for the smartest scholars in China (such as the academicians recently purged for their liberal views) to create a commission on ways to implement press freedom and create political parties. Then the commission could inspire Chinese leaders to abandon authoritarianism, in the same way Taiwan's wisest scholars convinced President Lee Teng-hui to make his ...
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