Debate on China

Chinese intellectuals feel that their China is one country, and they don’t want China into separate kingdoms. Therefore, they always believe strong leaders could unify the country.
Tibet conflict is the best example of their belief. While Tibetans are demanding for independence, Chinese are complaining Tibet is part of their country and never admit invading to Tibet in 1949.



Yes. Chinese history and political heritage will doom any effort to create a democratic political system.

According to Confucianism, “People can be improved, but they must understand their roles and perform them obediently. Sons are subservient to fathers, wives to husbands, younger brothers to elder brothers, and subjects to rulers.” Despite Mao Zedong hated most of Chinese old traditions, he stack together with Confucian stress on right thinking.

Chinese intellectuals feel that their China is one country, and they don’t want China into separate kingdoms. Therefore, they always believe strong leaders could unify the country.
Tibet conflict is the best example of their belief. While Tibetans are demanding for independence, Chinese are complaining Tibet is part of their country and never admit invading to Tibet in 1949.

Although Deng Xiaoping encouraged economics reform, he did not allow any moves towards democracy, as have his successors. He left the politics to Communist party despite the part of market economy was created. In 1989, Dang brutally cracked down the pro-democracy movement in Beijing Tiananmen square.

All four generations never suggested democracy in China’s future.

China is organized on a unitary rather than federal pattern.

Despite Chinese understand the idea of free market and democracy, it is difficult to express freely because the regime strictly control everything in their dictatorship style.
“ Thousands of censors supervise China’s Net, filtering emails for key words such as “democracy”, “Tiananmen”, and “Taiwan”. The regime also jailed some bloggers for subverting audience.”



No. Free market and globalization break through into the old philosophies of Chinese, and nobody can stop democracy essence.


China’s political system is changing. The overall system is much looser and freer. Indeed, views of ancient and modern China, sampling on cuisine could not tell the people are under dictatorial communist regime.

Student movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989 evidenced that Chinese would like to change the political system and want freedom.

After Tiananmen Square student movement was brutally cracked down, most of Chinese were despaired, and Marx, Mao and Deng have been discredited. “The Communist party and China display now complete lack of value.” After this turning point, Chinese would have desire for democratic government.

China’s autonomous regions are the most troublesome. The bombings and riots of 8 million Turkic-speaking Muslim Uygurs of Central Asia in Xinjiang and freedom movement of Tibetans are questioning that China would change their centralized political system and open to federal pattern.

Some educated Chinese have rediscovered classic liberalism-the philosophies of freedom and small government of Lock, Adam Smith, and Jefferson. When Chinese receive MBA degrees from abroad and understand the free market economy of Hayek and Friedman, it could challenge to the ideal of Marxism of the regime and lead to democracy.