China Is a democracy

Re: High approval ratingsHowever, the higher up levels of government are voted on by the lower tier. I would argue that as you go higher up, the less likely the people are represented properly. After all, only the majority of people will have people elected at the lowest level representing them, then a majority of a majority will elect the next level, and so on. Eventually you get pluralities, or even minorities who are represented only in the government while ignoring the majority. So, I argue this means it's not democratic, so the high approval ratings would not mean anything. Re: biasAgain, you need to show that there is bias in these specific articles. You could have chosen a few of them and point out how they have bias. You can't just claim they do without offering reason for each specific case. It would be a blanket statement. I would say we can accept the analyses by the google scholar articles. RE: RecallHowever, it's not in the constitution that they can recall the lower level of government. Thus, I wonder where this source you showed got its information from. For all we know, they could be making that up, especially since they didn't cite any source on the matter themselves.RE: still easy to run for officeI would argue it is more democratic to require that you need more support of the people to be able to run. If just 4 people can nominate you, that's not all that democratic, as it's just representing the views of 4 people instead of the community. Now, my opponent argues that small constituencies make it hard for the Chinese government to manipulate elections, but the fact of the matter is, it still does happen as the wikipedia article shows. This would still make it less democratic, just the fact that it happens. My opponent argues that because the people vote for the communist party, that the people trust the communist party. This logic is flawed. Let's just look at how the people vote in America. It's almost always a republican or a democrat who gets in. However, a plurality of people are neither democrat nor republican and are upset over the democrat and republican rule. [13] [14]Re: telephoneHowever, in many instances, it's not possible to undo a decision once it's done. The only way someone can tell a politician in a higher up position that they did the wrong policy, is if the policy has already been implemented. For example, capital punishment and military operations are basically not able to be undone. Many other decisions would have an immediate effect on things too, that would put the people under the consequences of that decision for at least a while. So, while someone of the lower government can speak up, it's not until after the plan is initiated that it would happen. China is socialistHowever, the higher up levels of government are elected by the lower level. This isn't democratic, I argue. Unless it's the lower level of government that owns the state-owned enterprises, this is not a democratic control of the means of production.Conclusion:While they have recall elections from lower level of government to the other, it is questionable whether they do for the lowest level of government, as there was no source cited for where the source my opponent linked to. That source could be just making it up, and since the idea of local government being recalled is absent in the Chinese constitution, it probably doesn't exist all across China. While multiple parties and candidates are allowed to run, they essentially have to be pre-approved by the Chinese government or else the government will actively get involved in the election to prevent that person from winning. The claim that they are more democratic because they are socialist is flawed, since I argue that they are not socialist since the people are not involved in electing the higher-ups who control the means of production. In the scientific community, it is widely viewed that China is authoritarian, and my opponent failed to present facts to support their claim that the articles I linked to are biased. They conjectured it, but failed to support this claim that bias was occuring in some of those articles. Sources:[13] http://www.gallup.com...[14] http://www.gallup.com...