To the rulers of the People’s Republic of China, terms like “democracy” and “rule of law” don’t necessarily have any meaningful relationship with what the terms actually mean.
CCP officials may, in fact, call their country’s dictatorship a “democracy” but—just to “clarify”—explain that it’s the democracy “with Chinese characteristics.” (This is different from “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” which sure does have something to do with the tyranny and destruction wrought by socialist doctrines and policies.)
“In our own way”
Monkton points us to a report about how the Chinese ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian (shown above), is contending that the People’s Republic of China “is a democracy, in our own way. We are a democracy with Chinese characteristics.” Sort of like saying dog poop is caviar “with Chinese characteristics.”
Appending the illuminating phrase “with Chinese characteristics” comes in handy. In the up-is-down-with-Chinese-characteristics view of CCP servitors, Hong Kong was liberated with Chinese characteristics by the conquest that began with the handover from Great Britain in 1997 and was massively accelerated by passage of the National Security Law With Chinese Characteristics imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.
CCP propagandists still insist that Hong Kong has a second political system that is safeguarded by the mainland. The proof is that this second system has been destroyed. Obliteration is preservation with Chinese characteristics. Look: Hongkongers’ protests against Chinese tyranny, which is freedom with Chinese characteristics, have stopped. What further objective evidence with Chinese characteristics is required?
Now a great advance toward unblemished judicial justice with Chinese characteristics has been ratified as it were by the lawmakers so to speak of Macau. These have “unanimously approved a bill…that allows court proceedings to be held behind closed doors when deemed necessary to protect national security interests.
“The city enacted its first national security law in 2009 and tightened it with amendments in 2023. Last July, leading democrat Au Kam San was arrested for alleged collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security, the first known arrest under that law….
“The Macau government said the approval had demonstrated the successful implementation of the principle of ‘patriots governing Macau.’ ”
