CNPC

“China is ruled by a one-party authoritarian dictatorship”1. This is the kind of propaganda slop that will pop up at the top of the search query of any Westerner who has a genuine interest in understanding the Chinese political system.

Part of the Western misreading of China comes from the over-simplified explanation of China’s governance, in essence the over-reliance on the “one-party” nature to describe the Chinese state.