Middle-Class Aspirations
My journey covered only a fraction of China, but what I saw indicates that the China’s success will continue.
May 22, 2025
Small Spaces, Big Ideas
In a world where urban challenges often seem insurmountable, Caochang offers a hopeful reminder that solutions can be found through cooperation, compassion and community involvement.
Dec 19, 2024
Deciphered: Whole-Process People’s Democracy
China’s concept of democracy presents a stark contrast to familiar Western models. Instead of dismissing or fearing this different approach, engaging with and seeking to understand it can serve as a worthwhile reflection on Western systems and assumptions.
Oct 21, 2024
People — Foundation of a State
The people are the foundation of a country and only when the people lead a good life can the country thrive.
Mar 28, 2024
A Polity That Works for People
China’s whole-process people’s democracy has created happiness and prosperity for its citizens and promoted global peace and development.
Mar 8, 2024
Josef Gregory Mahoney: Whole-Process People’s Democracy and China in the New Era
China has now emerged as a strong and wealthy nation, capable of serving the greater global good through win-win development schemes, while promoting democracy internationally through true multilateralism.
Mar 6, 2024
Whole-Process People’s Democracy from a Global Comparative Perspective
Whole-process people’s democracy tells those that are pursuing democracy that each country is entitled to search out the political system and path to democracy best suited to their national conditions.
Feb 28, 2024
Human Rights and Human Dignity
Human rights are closely linked to human dignity. The country that offers people the best in the field of human rights will be the most attractive.
Jan 8, 2024
Deconstructing Western Mischaracterizations of BRICS
China, and indeed the other BRICS members, do want to create multipolarity to replace what has long been and to some extent remains a unipolar world order.
Aug 30, 2023
A World in Turmoil Must Find a New Paradigm
The creation of new organizations representing the interest of the Global South must do their part in creating a new paradigm in the world, a paradigm of harmony and mutual understanding among nations rather than rancor, fear, and conflict.
Jun 15, 2023
Global Security Initiative and Human Rights Guarantee
The GSI is a first-hand practical example of China leading efforts to de-weaponize human rights, and facilitate the right of the peoples around the world to choose ways to develop their type of democracy as well as social and political systems that are aligned to their national conditions.
Jun 15, 2023
Chinese Modernization, a Gift to the World
This is what China’s modernization has presented: a new way to modernize. That is a gift. Simply proving that socialism works in creating economic and social progress gives 200 nations around the world a different choice.
Jun 5, 2023