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by chrischen 2993 days ago
China is not a dictatorship. It is a single party representative government system that does not directly elect as many officials as the US does. However even in the US most officials are not directly elected (including the president) and people are still limited to two parties. Consider the last US election, Donald Trump lost the popular direct election, but was still elected by president by the Electoral college (a separate body chosen by the 2 dominant political parties for electing the president).

Guantanamo bay is not run by the Chinese. While they generally do not imprison US citizens, they definitely do not give a shit about human rights for other people.
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bad_good_guy 2993 days ago
China is a dictatorship. Don't delude yourself.
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chrischen 2993 days ago
It's a one-party regime, and that has its downsides, but it's not the same as a dictatorship. Just because it's not as Democractic as the US does not make it a dictatorship.
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Anon1096 2993 days ago
There are many strong criticisms of the electoral college. It being "a separate body chosen by the 2 dominant political parties for electing the president" is not one of them, because everyone chosen by the parties is almost guaranteed to vote as they are supposed to. The outcome is known and isn't pulled out of thin air, and has a direct relation to how people voted.
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chrischen 2993 days ago
The US election system is dominated by two parties. And the two parties do not have purely Democractic processes as they are not considered part of the government.

For example there are super delegates which are fundamentally undemocractic. There are also "winner take all" caucuses which has a tendency to support and overrepresent the majority.

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fermienrico 2993 days ago
Read and watch the video in this article please:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43188739

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