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Democracy can Make China a Great Power
October 29, 2012 / Daniel Twining
Financial Times
As China undergoes its once-a-decade political transition, Chinese and westerners alike wonder whether its new leaders will put the country on a path to openness and transparency. This is morally desirable. More to the point, political liberalisation is a strategic imperative if China is to sustain its rise toward world power status.
The new leaders have their work cut out – from the bursting of China’s demographic bubble and the limits of state-led growth to the suspicion of well-armed neighbours. Yet these problems are intensified by – and inherent to – the nature of the country’s political regime.
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Daneiel Twining is senior fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
