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Ignorance
I do not support the Communist Party in China and in all ways wish to see them removed from power. However, I think it is extremely unfair that everyone calls the CCP an evil regime, cult etc. They are not. They are simply a party which is bent on remaining in power. That doesn't make them satan-worshippers or genocide leaders. They are simply a few old men who want to stay in power. It's as simple as that.
Now with China classified as a Newly-Industrialized Country, I think alot of people from Hong Kong and Taiwan has lost their superiority in wealth. Thus, they turn their attention to 'democracy' and call the Communist Party a brutal regime. However, I think the Communist Party, because of their will to stay in power, has truly down some remarkable things to change China. I'm not even going to talk about the impressive GDP growth they have generated the past decade, but the thought of feeding 1.3 billion citizens is daunting enough. But rarely or none at all do you see reports that there are about massive starvation in rural China. Furthermore, The Communist party isn't building personality cults like in North Korea, they are improving the lives of it's citizens, even though it comes from the desire to stay in power.
All in all, I think alot of people are using democracy as an excuse to either put China down, as in the case of Taiwan and the United States, or to express discontent with their personal lives and seeing no way out, devote themselves to campaigning for democracy. I don't think there is a valid reason for a change of political system right now, and China is a country of 1.3 billion people, changing anything has dire consequences for everyone, you, me, the world. So think about what democracy will bring to China first, before blindly exporting the idea into the country.