As a follow up to the previous post, a very interesting talk from Eric X. Li : A tale of two political systems — thank you Richard, for the link.
Democraty is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret.
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meta-narrative is the cancer that is killing democracy from the inside. (…)
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China political model (…) doesn’t pretend to be universal, it can not be exported. (… It is) the demonstration that an alternative exists. (…) Let universality make way for plurality.