Dunno why you bother disputing what is in ROC's constitution.
Tsai's party has been trying to change the reunification reference for years, but never had enough support.
As a student of politics, I positively welcome cogent challenges to my prejudices.
To make it easy for everybody to tell me where I have gone wrong re US, here is
an assessment of US foreign policy that is 99% consistent with my prejudices.
Regarding the PRC,
Wow!
The PRC's understanding of democracy is the deepest in the world by a country mile, and they have continent-size results to prove it too (see bottom of post).
Democratic India, which had similar GDP (and population) 30 odd years earlier, is now 5 times poorer. Do you think it is luck?
Do you think the PRC didn't notice how Yeltsin/Gorbachev's democratisation worked out? Or how the Asian Tigers, including Taiwan, did not grow as liberal democracies? And Singapore, the one that outperformed them all and admired (by Boris anyway, apparently...), still isn't?
Coming back to today, how has democracy worked out for Ukraine?
What about UK? Or USA? Or Israel - supposedly the sole democracy in the Middle East? Have the democracies so endowed with riches from colonisation, genocides, and wars delivered for their citizens, never mind the world?
Yet, somehow you think the PRC don't understand democracy?
For some food for thought, I suggest we go back to the basics with Lincoln, who famously said democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. Right?
The key question, which can't be raised in polite Western circles, is how come that became enshrined as one person one vote and anybody can be elected?
It is a pertinent question, because that meant some clown writing a column in the Telegraph, or another clown playing president on a TV show, or an orange "stable genius" succeeded by an 80 year old with cognitive challenges, etc., all got entrusted to deliver "for the people".
If a system patently can't be relied on to deliver the most complex and critical decisions on earth "for the people", what is the point, and consequence, of enshrining it, and then going through the motion every few years?
Let's try a thought experiment - if you had a magic wand, would you in good conscience make the PRC, with 1400000000 souls, adopt the democratic system you live in and/or you think you know? Will it deliver more "for the people"? How so?
Do you understand PRC's political system, when you say they don't understand democracy?
More fundamentally, do YOU* understand democracy?
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Source. Also see (page 12 of) the
Edelman trust barometer, or the
Harvard Ash Centre survey.
* Hope you don't take my questions personally. Not your fault you are fed popular wall to wall bigotry daily - an all-party, national pastime nowadays - sadly another inevitable product of our democracy. "Survival" now requires blindness, wilful or otherwise - see what happened to Corbyn, and see how Jeffrey Sachs (who personally advised Yeltsin and Gorby on democratisation, bless) was
stopped from talking about democracy in a recent democracy forum.
