China's political system enjoys an edge

In the years immediately after the end of the Cold War, Western scholars were quite confident that Western-style "democracy" would eventually triumph over all other political systems, with Francis Fukuyama's book, The End of History and The Last Man, being a case in point.

Yet the past decade has revealed many deficiencies in what the Western scholars claimed to be a faultless political system. Western-style democracy, in fact, has failed to solve the social, economic and political problems of even the Western countries.

In contrast, socialism with Chinese characteristics is propelling China toward realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.