r/NewsWithJingjing • u/Repulsive-Basis6434 • Jun 03 '23

Media/Video This is unironically what Americans are taught about China

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u/TiltedHelm Jun 03 '23

Question 4 is meant to imply that China isn’t democratic because the President is selected by the National People’s Congress and not by direct popular vote (even though the US President is elected by the electoral college, not the popular vote).

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '23

Parliament is who chooses the PM too in parliamentary processes. So the people of the UK don’t really vote for their head of state, right?

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u/FiIthy_Anarchist Jun 03 '23

In westminster systems the party is elected, and its leader becomes PM. The leader is elected by their party.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

The UK's head of state is the monarch, who is completely unelected and unaccountable (obviously).

The PM is the head of the British government, but can still be unilaterally dismissed by the monarch at any time.

This applies to other commonwealth nations too (although the actual process is undertaken by the monarchy's representative in those countries, who is the Governor General), this famously happened in Australia in 1975, when Gough Whitlam (Australia's elected PM) was unilaterally dismissed by John Kerr, the governor general at the time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

I know. I’m just saying even their system isn’t really democratic and British people don’t even get to vote for their head of state or government.