Illiberal governments are becoming increasingly assertive and illiberal political movements are on the rise. While democracy is deeply embedded within American culture, it is a relatively new idea in most parts of the world, barely two hundred years old, one that emerged from the violent regimes which originally forged the now developed West. In China’s eyes, through its millenia-long prism of history, the Western concept of democracy may well turn out to be just another short cycle of history.
