You may want to compare and contrast the USA for example. What is democracy exactly? If people got to vote once every 20 years would it still be a democracy? What about every 4 years, and then the only two candidates were Trump, who doesn’t respect the process, or Harris who has never received a single vote in her life and has zero actual policies announces a short time before the election?
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#is-china-a-democracy
You may want to compare and contrast the USA for example. What is democracy exactly? If people got to vote once every 20 years would it still be a democracy? What about every 4 years, and then the only two candidates were Trump, who doesn’t respect the process, or Harris who has never received a single vote in her life and has zero actual policies announces a short time before the election?
Or look at France right now.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1828169812738220402
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1828361816931524980
I think it’s much harder to argue that the USA is a democracy than it is for China.