Western media's perspective is outdated

There is much commentary and criticism in the Western media about China's constitutional amendment. Western concern is that China is not continuing on what the West thought would be an eventual and systematic transition toward "democratic institutions", as certain countries in the West have chosen to define them. In viewing Chinese politics from their own frame of reference, maybe these analysts are missing the bigger picture by narrowing the focus.

Western observers often project their own beliefs and experiences into a framework through which to view China. Similar frameworks are applied to other countries in the non-Western world as well, with similar results.

The consistent result is an inability to understand the currents and considerations that reflect cultures, societies, and geographies that are different from those Western countries. Consequently, Western analysis of China and other non-Western countries is consistently off base, leaving analysts and politicians baffled that their predictions have simply missed the mark. That is because the assumptions that they have based the analysis on, may simply not be relevant - largely because they have not tried to understand events and changes from the perspective of a local context.