Mao was dead, and the country was pulling itself together under reformist Deng Xiaoping. You cannot believe the pretension that China is becoming more democratic and open. The demonstrations, centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, gave voice to pent-up frustrations about corruption and a stifling political system. It cites political and bureaucratic logjams in Washington and elsewhere as evidence of the superiority of its Marxist-Leninist``Some key parts of the Western value system are collapsing,'' said an editorial in the Global Times, a Communist Party newspaper. ''Many Western analysts have likewise ceased envisioning a democratic China.``We see now that history is not ineluctably moving toward democracy,'' said Schell, the American scholar.

Source: Economic Times March 12, 2018 09:00 UTC