China Is a democracy

Any quotes from my opponent will be italicized. The Chinese Constitution:It's one thing to claim these things on paper, but it's an entirely different matter if it happens in reality. As I've been showing, they are not really that democratic in practive. They are ranked low in the democracy index, which you have yet to explain why that is false. In addition, it should be noted that, while the people to get to vote for their representatives in China, the candidates who can run are chosen by the party[5]. Not anyone can just run like is the case in America or other countries. This limits democracy, because not everyone is free to run for office, and it has to be approved by the current administration. Multi-tiered representative democracy:And when the representatives get together and elect people at higher levels their constituents' needs determines how they vote. In this way it is better than the people voting directly for national representatives.How is this better than people directly voting? The person is more likely to get their constituent's desires wrong. However, if the people vote directly for the higher up representatives, their views are represented directly rather than indirectly through someone else voting. It's more democratic to have direct voting of representatives than indirect. This argument in this whole paragraph makes no actual sense. The right to recallI suppose this is one instance where they are more democratic, but the vast majority of comparisons show that they are less democratic, such as how people running for office have to be approved by the party, the government gets involved in preventing certain people from being elected, and all of what I have said so far. The role of the communist party:"The system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China will exist and develop in China for a long time to come.'"This sounds like other parties are forced to cooperate with the communist party. How is it democratic to have parties forced to cooperate with another party? Allowing pluralism is more democratic, and this is in direct violation of allowing pluralism. 830 people in the National People's Congress are members of other political parties.Yes, but these people are forced to cooperate with the communist party. In addition, the Communist party has 2157 seats in the National People's congress.[6] To have that big of a majority, you know something is up. They likely have that large of a majority because the government gets directly involved in electing people. While not all parties are allowed, the limitations on which political parties are allowed has been decided within a system of democratic representation.It's not democratic when the government gets directly involved in deciding who is elected, who can run, etc. So no, it wasn't decided within a system of democratic representation. There are elections, but again, the people don't have much of a choice because the government prevents people they don't want from getting into power. Freedom of speechYeah, but if someone says something that the party disagrees with, they likely make sure they never get elected to begin with, as they are directly involved in shutting people down from getting elected as I showed previously. While in theory they allow you to say whatever you want, I'm sure if you say something other than what is in line with the communist party, you will probably not get elected or re-elected because then the government will work against you. Can you show any examples of someone in office who expresses very opposing opinions to the communist party in China? I'm sure you can't. That's fishy. You can't possibly say that all 1 billion+ people in china agree with the communist party there. There would be too many differring opinions. If no one in office expresses other opinions other than what is alligned with the communist party there, then something is up. And again, as I said, just because their constitution claims to have these freedoms, doesn't mean the country actually does in practice.Sources:[5] https://en.wikipedia.org... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org...