Dr Zhang Weiwei: Democracy Would Be Miserably Wrong for a Country Like China


Mehdi Hasan challenges Chinese scholar Dr Zhang Weiwei on whether China can afford Western-style democracy.

“Liberal democracy may be great or less great for the West, but it would be miserably wrong for a country like China,” argues Dr Zhang Weiwei, the author of the controversial book The China Wave and outspoken defender of the Chinese political model.

Source: Al Jazeera

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