China Says Democracy Hurts Kenya

Ryan McCabe wrote:

China speaks freely of how democracy has failed in Africa. Words such as this only serve for China to introduce a new form of government called communism. China's past is no cleaner than Kenya and neither does it have a good human rights record. China's goal, to own africa and spread the nightmare called communism

Andrez Lopez wrote:

Democracy is not cure for all developing countries. See Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and now Kenya. Whatever we say about China's communism,it has shown to be a viable way of governing a huge mass of people. The Chinese Poliburo and Central Committee is a think tank which guides the people to attain to a better future. On the contrary, if China had a western style democracy, she would still be fighting to consolidate the country and asking for internation help to feed its people.

Andrez Lopez wrote:

Democracy is not cure for all developing countries. See Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and now Kenya. Whatever we say about China's communism,it has shown to be a viable way of governing a huge mass of people. The Chinese Poliburo and Central Committee is a think tank which guides the people to attain to a better future. On the contrary, if China had a western style democracy, she would still be fighting to consolidate the country and asking for internation help to feed its people.

Arindam wrote:

"The election-related violence that has killed hundreds in Kenya is proof that Western-style democracy is a bad fit for Africa, said China "
Absolutely correct. WESTERN-STYLE democracy is bad for Africa. But African-style democracy might work better.
You have to develop your own style of democracy.

Mark wrote:

It is not about the elections!

BRAVE SOLDIER wrote:

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Great.... It has also reinforced my view that western style democracy is unsuited to large areas of the world, especially developing ones in Africa. These countries would benefit far more from national unity governments which would be all inclusive, since political parties are usually drawn up on tribal lines.
A frequently overlooked but very important problem is that in most of Africa and indeed the world, borders were drawn arbitrarily by colonial empires with no regard to the ethnic mix if the populations.
Since ethnicity often trumps every other kind of identity, voting occurs along ethnic lines and elections turn into a census that merely confirms pre-existing divisions.
Unless far-sighted leaders who can build coalitions across groups and share power and resources exist, we get the familiar outcomes: violent paralysis (Kenya today), dictatorship by one group (the usual outcome), or wholesale slaughter (Rwanda 1994).
In countries where poverty is rampant there is little incentive to share power and democracy rarely survives. There are exceptions of course, such as India, which was blessed with far-sighted leaders but even there we saw first a very bloody Muslim-Hindu partition (called Pakistan) and occasional deadly riots to this day. Perhaps some level of development is needed after all before democracy has a realistic chance to thrive in a multi-ethnic or multi-religious society.
Another option is to redraw borders.

Malaysian Chinese wrote:

Sure developement will not as fast as current China has. look at Democratic India, wad huge developent they have? Faster than the Chinese? Most of their citizen are still in poverty.

Malaysian Chinese wrote:

Only developed nation where its citizen should have democracy and developing nation should embrace the idea of communism, transform into democracy after involed into developed nation!