What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social scientists use the term totalitarian because to call China a tyranny would be to make a moral judgment about it. They prefer totalitarian because it suggest a numerical scale of authority and even liberal democratic Australia is only less totalitarian or authoritarian than China.
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