China Is a democracy

Articles Smack of BiasBy and large these articles will judge China as authoritarian because of the influence of the Communist Party. However, as I have pointed out and sourced in a previous round China's regime has a high approval rating. The Chinese people approve of the influence of the Communist Party, so the system is democratic.Scholarly articles typically are sponsored by academic institutions, and those institutions often have some sort of financial bias. Even absent a financial bias the academics were raised in an environment where they were told about how authoritarian China was since a young age. Confirmation bias is a well-known phenomenon in psychology, which explains the mental gymnastics people use to convince themselves that China is still a dictatorship even after learning that there are in fact multiple legal political parties and democratic elections.https://en.wikipedia.org...Recall and Being Easily Nominated Sourced in Previous RoundsThe right to recall was cited in a previous round. The source is the Chinese Constitution.That you only need three people to nominate you to run in an election was mentioned on the wikipedia page for Elections in China.I will include the sources again at the end of the page. Strong Central Authority Does Not Negate that a Multi-tiered System Can Better Represent the PeopleStrong central authority is often necessary. Policies can sometimes be ineffective if different localities are doing completely different things. Nevertheless since people elected at higher levels need the votes of only a small number of people and since each of those people need the votes of only a small number of people, and this proceeds downwards until you reach a level where the representatives each rely on the votes of a small constituency each representative develops closer relationships with those who elect him and each voter has more power proportionately compared to if they had instead used large constituencies to directly elect national offices.Con says that the people at the higher levels would only care about the desires of government officials at the smaller levels. But those government officials need to be elected too, so even if this is true then they will care about the desires of government officials who elect those officials who in turn elect them, and thus ultimately they will care about the desires of the voters who elect the government officials at the lowest level of government.China is Indeed Socialist and Socialism Requires a StateRead China's Constitution. It makes several references to socialism. Read about the economy of China at the wikipedia page. While yes China does use market mechanisms this is part of a "socialist market economy". Markets are used for the good of the state and ultimately for the good of the Chinese people. The primary authority over the economy is still the government and so it is still socialist. You will notice there are still many state-owned enterprises. 98% of China's banking assets is state-owned, for example. 75% of state bank loans go to state-owned enterprises.https://en.wikipedia.org...Con says that the state owning the means of production is incompatible with socialism. I argue the opposite. If a state is a democracy, as China is then the state running the economy (including making decisions about when and when not to partner with private entities) is socialist. In fact without the state all that could exist would be private entities, unaccountable to any authority, even the authority of the people. This is why socialism requires a state.Sources:1. China's Constitutionhttp://en.people.cn...2. Confirmation Biashttps://en.wikipedia.org...3. Elections in the People's Republic of China - Note that the link is broken. You will need to type in "Elections in the People's Republic of China" after wiki/ in order to reach the page.https://en.wikipedia.org...'s_Republic_of_China4. Economy of Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org...