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Of the renmin, by the renmin, and for the renmin

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On Wednesday, China’s ambassador to the US, Qin Gang delivered a speech with a surprising message.
That message: China is just as much a democracy as the USA.
Qin said that democracy was about taking a people-centered approach to governance (MoFA):

“[The] basic criterion of democracy should be whet...