Original sentence: However, compared to its closed door policies until the mid-1970s, the liberalization of the PRC is such that the current administrative climate is much less restrictive than before, though the PRC is still far from the full-fledged democracy as practised in United States and most of Europe, according to most observers internationally
Edited sentence: However, compared to its closed door policies until the mid-1970s, the liberalization of the PRC is such that the current administrative climate is much less restrictive than before, though the PRC is still far from the full-fledged democracy as practised in United States and most of Europe