“Senior party members previously told Reuters they had been approached by Chinese officials or middlemen and told to disband or face severe consequences, including possible arrest.”

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    No it’s really weird, they associate the word “democracy” with western capitalism, but they also insist that the average worker has a voice and votes on things and influences national decisionmaking… which is what a democracy is… except also with some weird one-party system where that party itself is effectively just a rich and powerful people’s club.

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      But no see they occasionally execute rich people (only those that aren’t major government officials or relatives of those officials) so it’s clearly not oligarchic at all either nope not one bit