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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