The Pros And Cons Of China's One-Party Government

As Li points out, with each new American president, the current one only seems to undo what the previous one did. Fighting other countries for power, the United States has to fight its past self as well, hindering its performance as a whole. America is stuck resolving this sort of infinite loop, while China is trying new things and learning from its past mistakes in order to construct a path towards an economically advanced future. The ability of the government to be so resilient also aids their advances in military as well, as more time and money are invested into expanding their military. Despite only having one single party, that party has the ability to flow with what its citizens want and adapt to their needs. America has the disadvantage

Once a new ruling party takes over, they can easily undo the actions of the previous leadership. Li asserts that “perhaps this could explain why governments produced by elections routinely fall substantially below 50 percent approval rating in their countries, and China’s one-party government has retained approval rates above 80 percent for decades” (Li, 2011). These numbers themselves are enough to prove that it is possible to have a successful and non-anarchic democracy. Li’s main point is that the people still have a major say in affecting how the government

The Chinese government can afford to maintain the support of almost all of its citizens because it has the ability to configure itself to the demands of the citizens in a way that ensures no backwards movement in their societal progress because of having learned from past mistakes and the desire to remain in power. Keeping with the water analogy, the leaders need to ensure the citizens are happy with the state of their nation to prevent their own ship from being overturned. This is why Li emphasizes that “a little less ideological bias and a little more intellectual honesty might tell us some simple truths: Electoral rotations do not necessarily produce flexibility or legitimacy; one-party rule does not mean rigidity or lack of popular support” (Li, 2011) just as all of the above points elaborate. Each of these countries has made a decision about which form of bureaucracy to use. There is a strong need to understand these strengths and weaknesses in order to prevent a disastrous war from