armchair general,
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WHOA. Seriously? That's very, very interesting. I wonder what that would look like.
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there's been talk going on for a long long time about expanding voting practices (zhao ziyang first talked about it back in the mid-80s, it got shelved until roughly '94-96 after tiananmen). right now it's been stuck at the "village" level for a while, but the progression is supposed to go:
village --> township --> district --> province
they would be able to elect officials and people to generally take care of things going on within their respective areas of influence. however, CCP holds the final say in most matters, as well as remaining in control of country-wide domestic/foreign policy. in terms of time, well, wen jiabao once told tony blair that they were thinking of going to the township level in the next few years.
if that's the case, that'd actually be slightly better than singapore-style democracy, because over there, if opposition candidates even get ELECTED, the authorities like to play a game of "oops, your power/water/gas in just your district has to be shutoff due to unexplained accident."