Recently came back from a trip to China and during a casual chat with a local, I mentioned that the current stability in China is likely to be disrupted if democracy is introduced at too fast a pace to China.He agrees and added that there actually is some form of democratic elections even at the village level whereby the village head in some villages is elected by the villagers. But it was what he said subsequently that was thought provoking.
He said that the election might be democratic, however the voter candidate might just be one whom the villagers know is corrupt to begin with; the rationale, at least they have a guage. It is possibly better than electing someone who might be clean and might turn out to follow the flow. A pretty interesting way of selection. Go figure.
