Commentary
“Whole-process democracy,” a term derived by the Chinese Communist Party to promote its self-acclaimed “well-deserved democracy,” contrasts sharply against reality. Hong Kong, an exception in China that used to enjoy limited democracy, met its fate and had its last election return a legislative council in which the pro-establishment bloc swept nearly all seats. This ex-British colony joined China’s “whole-process authoritarianism.”
Some may say that the communists’ one-party rule was similarly found during the Kuomintang era before 1949, and the former may not be worse off than the latter. This is not true. At least the KMT’s Three People’s Principles had an elaborate design of constitutional rule, contrasting the communists’ attempts to exert dictatorship in all aspects of life….