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The China model: op-ed by Dr Farrukh Saleem in The News, Nov 15, 2020


The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad…
…..The China Model focuses on ‘substance’ rather than the ‘democratic procedure’ (we in Pakistan are exclusively focused on the ‘procedural conceptions of democracy’ as opposed to ‘substance-based democratic conceptions’). ….. A procedural democracy “concerns itself with the so-called democratic features whereas a substantive democracy concerns itself whether policy has produced results that meet the needs of the masses.”

China has a ‘state-led economic model’ as opposed to ‘Western-style capitalism’. For the record, the China Model characterised by a ‘socialist market economy’ has delivered economic growth-like never before in human history. ….

The China Model has “meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle and democracy at the bottom.”……….

The three things that made ‘The China Miracle’ possible are: political stability, meritocracy and good governance. Which one of the three do we have in Pakistan? Pakistani leaders can learn from the success of others – if they want to. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/744013-the-china-model