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Xi Jinping likes to tell people in China that their country is not just a democracy, but a much higher-functioning democracy than those you’d find in the West. He coined a slogan, “whole-process people’s democracy” to refer to China’s style of democracy and he points to annual meetings like the National People’s Congress (NPC) as an example of how Chinese people participate.
James Miles, The Economist’s China writer-at-large, and Alice Su, our senior China correspondent, delve into this year’s NPC to ask: what is whole-process people’s democracy and does the Chinese public believe in it?
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Xi Jinping likes to tell people in China that their country is not just a democracy, but a much higher-functioning democracy than those you’d find in the West. He coined a slogan, “whole-process people’s democracy” to refer to China’s style of democracy and he points to annual meetings like the National People’s Congress (NPC) as an example of how Chinese people participate.
James Miles, The Economist’s China writer-at-large, and Alice Su, our senior China correspondent, delve into this year’s NPC to ask: what is whole-process people’s democracy and does the Chinese public believe in it?
Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—Subscribe to Economist Podcasts+
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