If you are not disturbed by how completely evil this is, the Chinese government is almost cute in it's total rejection of any kind of rational sense.

China Says Communist Rule Required for Democracy, Development

In a white paper titled the "Building of Political Democracy in China," the Chinese leadership says democratic reform has improved under the rule of the Communist Party, and says continued party rule is necessary to unite the country's people.

The report issued by China's cabinet describes the country as a "socialist political democracy" with "distinctive Chinese characteristics," guaranteed by the "people's democratic dictatorship" and under the leadership of the Communist Party.

In traditional Marxist jargon, communist countries are headed by a "dictatorship of the proletariat," and the proletariat, or working class, is represented by the Communist Party.

Wu Jianmin is President of China's Foreign Affairs University. He told foreign reporters in Beijing that China is striving for democracy, but not necessarily the same kind of democracy as found in Western countries, where the systems of government are based on direct elections.

You know, democracy, but without any of the messy democratic institutions.

This is the same country, by the way, that our Prime Minister loves and with whom he wants to increase trade relations, just to piss off the U.S. That's the way to establish Canada as a "moral middle power", Paul!