If China government isn’t a Monarchy or a Dictatorship, what is it? Part 2 of 4
The Economist implied in the October 23, 2010 issue of the magazine, that China is a monarchy. However, China is not a monarchy as the Kim Dynasty in North Korea has become or a dictatorship-monarchy...
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Before we move on, let’s take a brief look at the Athenian democracy that was developed around the 5th century B.C. in the Greek city-state of Athens. Even though there is evidence that democratic...
View ArticleSun Yat-sen’s Republic in China: Part 1 of 4
Dictionary.com defines a republic as “a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.” Sun...
View ArticleSun Yat-sen’s Republic in China: Part 2 of 4
The answer to the question I asked in Part 1 has nothing to do with the government of the United States as it exists today, but it does have everything to do with the politics of Hawaii when Sun...
View ArticleSun Yat-sen’s Republic in China: Part 3 of 4
Hawaii was not a democracy modeled after today’s United States when Sun Yat-sen lived there from age 13 to 17 [1879 – 1883]. In fact, when Sun Yat-sen lived in Hawaii, it was a kingdom ruled by a king...
View ArticleSun Yat-sen’s Republic in China: Part 4 of 4
Now that we know more about the United States and Hawaii, where Sun Yat-sen lived as a teenager, Sun’s concept of a republic would have been very different from what we think today. In addition,...
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