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by int_19h 1332 days ago
In Russia and China, the constitutional amendment process isn't really democratic, so it's not a fair comparison. In particular, all the various Russian referenda on constitutional amendments since 2000 are about as meaningful as the recent referendums in occupied Ukrainian territories. So it wouldn't matter even if it were as hard or harder to amend as the US constitution - not when the parliament and the regions consistently vote unanimously for anything that Putin puts in front of them.