German and Chinese Democracy

Where China will go from here is anyone’s guess. For Sun, political reforms seem to be an eventuality for China. His prediction is that the next 10-15 years will see a “voluntary retreat of the Communist Party” into a system where public disagreement, and opposition is voiced within the Communist Party itself...For most Chinese political experts, the question is not “if” China will have political reform, but “how” and “when?” Many, like Sun, are just waiting for the Chinese government to take that “first major step.”
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The Nazi regime was not brought to an end by sit-ins in front of the Adolf Hitler's Chancellery. It was the Russians, Americans and British who -- through a high price paid in the currency of both military and civilian casualties -- brought Hitler's massive war machinery to its knees. Bombs and grenades brought democracy to us Germans... Bush's approach -- using tanks and guns to force democracy down the world's throat -- rightly triggers some serious opposition: Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. How can a country that tolerated torture and created legal vacuums and advocate democracy and human rights with a straight face?
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