I believe China's closed system of governance and communist (in name only this days) one party state authoritarian system is also to blame. People in Hong Kong and Taiwan who have long gotten used to living ina democratic open system and interacting freely with the outside world or challenging their government openly without much repercussions are wary of China's closed system where the party is in control of almost everything (the party is even officially above the state).
How to define an authoritarian system? Can you please explain a little further when you label China governance as authoritarian system?
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so when people compare the American
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government with the Chinese government
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they say this is a comparison within a
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democratic system and an authoritarian
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system and a democratic system is of
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course better than Authority and system
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and I agree a democratic system is
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better than an authoritarian system but
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if you go if you dig one level down and
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you look at the functioning of the
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government and how it makes its
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decisions and you analyze it you may see
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that the democratic system may be
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performing as a plutocratic system
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serving the interests of the people the
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tiny elite and leaving thus creating a
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situation where I think half your
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population hasn't seen an increase in
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his median income for 40 years
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that's what plutocracy is the Chinese
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system is a meritocracy now the Chinese
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Communist Party is not perfect it has a
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lot of flaws in making lot of mistakes
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by in terms of harvesting the brainpower
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of China it has done an amazing job and
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I tell the story you know I was in
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diplomacy for 33 years when I started my
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career in 1971 if you had asked me do
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you want to talk to an American diplomat
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or Chinese diplomat I would say of
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course and talk to an American diplomat
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is graduate of Princeton Yale Harvard
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brilliant reads The New Yorker every
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week knows what's going on the world a
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Chinese diplomat 1971 would walk around
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with a mouse to the red book in his
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pocket and when I talk to him you'll
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produce mouse read book and read to me
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or Mouse read book why should I waste my
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time Chinese that's empty one you fast
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forward to 2018 and you ask me to fly to
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a capital somewhere and you said you
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want to talk to the American ambassador
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or the Chinese ambassador the likelihood
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is that the China
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ambassador would speak the language of
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the country would have been posted there
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several times would have a very new and
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sophisticated view of the country and
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the American ambassador would be one
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who's demoralized knowing that his
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budget is being cut knowing his chances
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of becoming an ambassador and the top
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capital is practically zero because
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there are political appointees so you
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have a demoralized the American
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diplomatic service and an incredibly
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dynamic Chinese Foreign Service that's
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what that's a big change that has
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happened since 1971 and that's a result
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of meritocracy
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