The difference between the US's two party system and China's one party system is efficiency. America is essentially also a one party system, but with more steps.
And essence too. We must remember that there is more diversity within the CPC than between the Democrats and Republicans. Just compare Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
No problem. It just happens to be a contentious point when in English, because the use of the incorrect acronym âCCPâ is used to emphasize ethnicity(Chinese) over nationality(of China), and separates the party from other national communist parties, which have all used the format âCommunist Party of _____â since the Comintern. Itâs an intentional distortion by English speaking media to control the narrative around China, and unfortunately is very effective and prevalent.
This article that contains several references seems to suggest even the Chinese government uses them interchangeably despite, as you correctly point out, a stated preference for CPC.
Example:
Indeed as recently as 2016, the official translation of Xi Jinpingâs speech marking the 95th anniversary of the Partyâs founding, supplied by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, refers to the âChinese Communist Partyâ precisely 100 times.
I would say as a regular college educated native English speaker there is zero effective distinction between the word China being used as an ethnicity vs as a nationality, contrary to your claim, and that applies to making it into an adjective as well. Itâs entirely contextual. And most people would assign nationality not ethnicity in the context of national politics. It makes no sense to claim people will get confused about ethnicity.
That is not to say that bad actors couldnât or donât deliberately use one or the other. But to a normal American, the whole debate is almost literally meaningless.
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u/CapriSun87 May 15 '23 edited May 15 '23
The difference between the US's two party system and China's one party system is efficiency. America is essentially also a one party system, but with more steps.