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Originally Posted by LostInTranslation
How convenient to have a two-party system! So you can always blame the previous administration for anything you did wrong. BTW, didn't Americans vote for Bush for his second term AFTER the Iraq war? We are not sure who will be the president of the U.S. coming this November, are we?
Even with a one-party system, China can also correct the wrongs it has done previously. For example, during the Cultural Revolution, many monasteries in Tibet have been damaged; CCP has acknowledged the mistakes that they have made during the CR, and repaired thousands of monasteries since then.
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As you may have noticed, I am a member of a third party , Libertarian party.
I think the greater the plurality of parties and ideas, the better chance that things will not go wrong. How does a one-party system work efficiently for the people? How is China represented by the people? The name " people`s republic" denotes the idea that China is governed by the people, but this seems to be the farthest from the truth. The US makes mistakes as well as China, but I don`t think that something like the cultural revolution could not have happened in the US, because of our multi-party system would never have put that kind of power in to the hands of a few elite long enough to do something so self-destructive. Again, I think China has chanfed a lot for the good, definitely since the end of the CR in 76 , but I think it has a long way to go in the way of improving human rights.