Time to ignore Western critics and promote fruitful policies

Now and then some Western media outlets laugh at China's "fake" democracy. But the inconvenient truth is that for decades Western politicians and pundits alike have continued to deny that China's political system has outperformed their own in every metric that really matters.

Over the past 40 years, since late leader Deng Xiaoping proclaimed the Four Cardinal Principles, China has lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than any other political system in the history of the human race. By contrast, the US and the major European Union countries have been mired in profound, ever-escalating crises of unemployment, economic decay and public violence.

Not coincidentally, these catastrophic domestic failures have been accompanied by wild manic campaigns of aggression against small and ill-equipped countries around the world which are in no position to fight back. China has waged no such aggression. The United States, the United Kingdom and France have unleashed many.