one - party state

And yet China is still a one-party state and terror remains essential to its survival.

The US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in Asia.

Faced with a need for so many reforms, a natural question arises: Can China continue to be a one-party state?

A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.

He had serious doubts, even a decade ago, about Beijing's export tactics abroad, and the authoritarianism of its one-party state at home.

Suppose, therefore, that China remains a communist, authoritarian, one-party state with a growing appetite to get its way.

FOR half a century Japan, dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was a one-party state in multiparty clothes.

But, if China remains a one-party state over the next decade, that will change.

This one-party state seeks stability above all else. The currency may never be allowed to threaten it.

Is our political performance an argument for the superiority of our ballyhooed democracy over their one-party state?

For decades, Japan was essentially, was functionally, a one-party state and now it is no longer.

Its messy democracy may not give it the sense of purpose that China's one-party state does.

The objective is not to pave the way slowly towards a more democratic system but to make the one-party state more effective and durable.

Is Hungary becoming an authoritarian, overcentralised one-party state where the checks and balances of democracy are being dismantled?

But Beijing's neighbours are, not unreasonably, nervous about the military clout of an ambitious one-party state.

The presumption in New Delhi is that China's unified, one-party state is bound to break down.

Cuba remains a one party state with heavily censored media controlled by the ruling communist party.

It is difficult to imagine a dynamic knowledge economy emerging in a politically repressive one-party state; none ever has before.

At last, Japan would become a fully functioning democracy, and not a de facto one-party state run by bureaucrats.

Private charities and non-governmental organisations are still viewed with suspicion by China's one-party state.

He then created a virtual one-party state after political rival Joshua Nkomo fled the country, fearing assassination.

In a one-party state even the supporters of the one party are sometimes restive.

The one-party state of Cuba has bet on socialism as a way to stay in power.

The country's one-party state is suppressing information that could lead to citizens promoting, demanding and working for positive change.

China's one-party state has proved much more resilient than was imaginable when the Berlin Wall fell.

Contrary to the view that a one-party state can act as it wants, Beijing, too, has to contend with domestic politics.

In the Russian case, a one-party state attempted to impose reform from above and failed.

China, obviously, is a very large one-party state.

And profitable corporations have a lot of power of resistance, even in a one-party state.

A one-party state chides an electronics firm for "arrogance"

The legacy of the LDP's one-party state is that policy and legislation pass in parallel through both government and party.

The political climate in a one-party state such as China is harder to gauge.

It is ironic that a one-party state should embrace an anti-monopoly law.

This is, after all, a one-party state.

(China is just starting to build professional bodies with the kind of independence that has so far not thrived in a one-party state. )