Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership does not understand the nature of American democracy, according to one expert, and is failing to enact policies that could ease tensions between China and the United States and increase the prosperity of the Chinese people.
“When I was in China I would teach concepts like democracy, and I could see none of my students understood democracy,” said Gregory Moore, Head of the School of International Studies at the University of Nottingham during an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver on June 3.
Moore, who lived and taught in China for 14 years, including a stint teaching comparative politics for CCP cadres, said that communist propaganda and decades of socialization had effectively snuffed the spark of burgeoning democratic thought in mainland China and that many, including the highly educated, did not grasp the nuances of representative government….