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As many know Jackie Chan’s recent remar …

As many know Jackie Chan’s recent remarks at the Bo Ao forum about CHinese people needing to be controlled against the chaos and messiness of democracy has aroused controversy around the world. The following is an open letter signed by … Continue reading

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Protesting in China, or the red tape Olympics

Chinaelections.org has an interesting essay on the rules pertaining to public assembly and protest in the PRC. This was written before the Games, and in light of all that (didn’t happen) during the Games, the information here might be worth … Continue reading

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China and the “semantic field” in which democracy moves

This French website of ideas and culture has, thankfully, an English section* and in it an essay enttiled “Democratic Universalism as a Historical Problem”. In that I found the following passage: Hamilton thus spoke of the vices of democracy and … Continue reading

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