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China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.