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China is not a liberal or representative democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government state that China is a socialist democracy and a people's democratic dictatorship. [4] Under Xi Jinping, China is also termed a whole-process people's democracy.
The authoritarian government in China suppresses protests that challenge the authority of the government while showing greater tolerance for protests that are rooted in localized economic or social unrest. [37] Under Xi Jinping's rule, the government has resorted to greater suppression of dissent. [37]
The concept of people's democratic dictatorship is rooted in the "new" type of democracy promoted by Mao Zedong in Yan'an during the Chinese Civil War. [2] [3] In a September 1948 report to the Politburo, Mao called for establishing "a people's democratic dictatorship based on an alliance of workers and peasants under proletarian leadership."
China’s anti-graft campaign has led to massive fallouts across its economy, from the get-go: an estimate by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2014 put its cost at $100 billion; and just last year ...
Article 1 of the Constitution describes China as "a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship" [6] meaning that the system is based on an alliance of the working classes—in communist terminology, the workers and peasants—and is led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the vanguard of the
Ringen tries to question the purpose of the party-state itself and the extent and importance of ideology in Chinese governance. The basis of his observation is that China is neither an authoritarian state, and neither is it a dictatorship, the former having too soft of connotations, and the latter implying a too crude of a regime, traditionally simply in place to support the interests of a ...
While operating under strict control and supervision by the central government, China's local governments manage relatively high share of fiscal revenues and expenditures. [39] Their level of authority and autonomy in economic decision-making is high, and they have played a major role in national economic development.
The on-going aggression at the time that China was trying to modernize in spite of dapped the resources China needed to enact that democratic reform and to dissuade Chinese people from enacting similar, aggressive and imperialistic forms of government.