No Democracy in China

[Sean]

From the article linked in the opening post:

China faces a number of highly sensitive anniversaries this year, including 20 years since the military crushed pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, and 50 years since an anti-China uprising in Lhasa that sparked the Dalai Lama's flight into exile.

Hardly reason to celebrate their stance.

Any system of government that stifles basic civil liberties is deeply flawed. And I say that fully knowing that there are serious flaws within western-style democracy as well, but hey - western-style democracy allowed us to go from the pre-civil rights era to actually having a black President in just a few short decades. Simply put, that would have been impossible under a rigid system of government like they have in China, or under Sharia law.