China Local Experiment With Democracy: Do Successful Local Elections Harbor Signs of More Democratic Reforms to Come? Democracy, Elections, and Voting

Righting wrongs in China depends on rights

The Christian Science Monitor

By the Monitor’s Editorial Board

posted May 30, 2012 at 4:19 pm EDT

Famed dissident Chen Guangcheng has been in the United States less than two weeks, and he’s already firing off complaints in the US media about his country’s leadership. His main criticism: China doesn’t lack for good laws.