What Chinese Communist ‘Democracy’ Really Looks Like

A peculiar kind of voting does take place at the Chinese regime’s Party congresses, though it’s quite different from that any American has heard of.
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What Chinese Communist ‘Democracy’ Really Looks Like
A delegate speaks on a mobile as he attends the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress, on March 13, 2007, in Beijing. (Guang Niu/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
11/8/2012
Updated:
8/14/2015
<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/155760067_Party_Congress.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-312698" title="<<enter caption here>> on November 8, 2012 in Beijing, China." src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/155760067_Party_Congress-601x450.jpg" alt="Hu Jintao speaks during the opening session" width="590" height="442"/></a>
Hu Jintao speaks during the opening session

<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/73559850.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-312699" title="Fourth Plenary Session of the National Peoples Congress" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/73559850-676x450.jpg" alt="A delegate speaks on a mobile" width="350" height="233"/></a>
A delegate speaks on a mobile

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Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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