Okay I've just wasted about 30 minutes of my life reading someone unironically defend "Democratic dictatorships" with nothing substantial, just empty rhetoric and blind praise. And happily pushes the most abhorrent and blatant totalitarian propaganda such as

Those who are the people are the heart and soul of China, the recently voiceless majority, and their enemies are not people. Reactionaries and their perpetual dinner guests do not even count as people. Democracy is not for them. This is a rather breathtaking dialectical reinvention of the term “people” itself. “People” is partisan, focused on the majority who simultaneously comprise the whole.

Like yes, we're a democracy for the people (the people are the partisans that agree with me, democracy is not for anyone else )

Only for the author to barely even touch on the issue of China not actually being communist.

Economically, most enterprises are operated by the state with socialist structures, yet capitalist production plays a significant role. The balancing act is to maintain control over those developments so that they do not dominate. Some would argue that the government and people have been swamped by capitalism since the opening up by Deng Xiaoping, but others observe that the situation is far from full-blooded capitalism.43

Is pretty much all he says in regards to the economics of China, so he doesn't even say he agrees with one side or another and even if he did the other side is "well China isn't 100% capitalist" not "China is socialist"

Like I'm sure you'll claim I just didn't understand what was really being said or how a totalitarian leader that openly arrests anyone that challenges him politically is actually Democratic, just a different kind of special Chinese democracy. Or whatever. But all you've done by getting me to read this is to hats China more.