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Is China’s Leadership more Legitimate than the United States ?
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BBC News has an opinion piece by Martin Jacques (Economist who wrote When China Rules the World).
On Tuesday the next American president will be elected. Two days later, the 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party will select the new Chinese president and prime minister.
Americans in their tens of millions will turn out to vote. In China the process of selection will take place behind closed doors and involve only a relative handful of people.
You are probably thinking, “Ah, America at its best, China at its worst – the absence of democracy. China's Achilles heel is its governance. This will be China's downfall.”
I want to argue quite the contrary.
But democracy is only one factor. Nor does democracy in itself guarantee legitimacy.
Think of Italy. It is always voting, but the enduring problem of Italian governance is that its state lacks legitimacy.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2012-11-04 18:03:33 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/11/is-chinas-leadership-more-legitimate.html
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