Roger Garside, a noted China expert and British former diplomat who was stationed in Beijing during and after the reign of Mao Zedong, discussed his vision on Monday for democracy in China in an event hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Garside, author of “China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom,” which was published this month by University of California Press, stated that outsiders “cannot dictate how China is governed. But they can and must help those Chinese who want a democratic China to achieve it.” He said that nations should openly declare “the objective of a free China” and that the Chinese people are being kept “in a condition of political slavery” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which he called a “totalitarian regime.” Garside added that “those Chinese who secretly want change will heartened by our commitment.” Glenn Tiffert, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and …