{"id":10728,"date":"2021-01-20T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118516\/china-reckons-us-democracy-imploding-could-be-missing-point"},"modified":"2021-01-20T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:32:38","slug":"china-reckons-us-democracy-is-imploding-but-could-be-missing-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/china-reckons-us-democracy-is-imploding-but-could-be-missing-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"China reckons US democracy is imploding but could be missing the point"},"content":{"rendered":"China\u2019s wolf warrior diplomats and its state-run media have described the storming of Washington\u2019s Capitol building on January 6 as a failure of US democracy. But an alternative view is that it may instead be a sign of the democratic system\u2019s strength.Academics say the flaws in US politics are there for all to see, but the China narrative often reflects misunderstandings about how a democratic system works. And, while American democracy may have taken some body blows under outgoing president\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118516\/china-reckons-us-democracy-imploding-could-be-missing-point\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s wolf warrior diplomats and its state-run media have described the storming of Washington\u2019s Capitol building on January 6 as a failure of US democracy. But an alternative view is that it may instead be a sign of the democratic system\u2019s strength&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}