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We must stand with Taiwan

Chinese ‘democracy’ is a joke

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

Humpty Dumpty’s reflection in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass that words mean what you chose them to mean clearly applies to the Chinese Communist Party. Having previously informed the world that freedom, democracy and human rights are not universal values, Xi Jinping’s regime now insists that democracy ‘with Chinese characteristics’ contains none of the principles that constitute it.

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