{"id":192,"date":"2006-12-29T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T23:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/12\/democracy-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:40:08","slug":"democracy-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/12\/democracy-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Communists always oppose a one-party dictatorship, and don&#8217;t approve of the Nationalists having a one-party dictatorship.  The CCP certainly doesn&#8217;t have a program to monopolise government because one party can only rule in its own interests and won&#8217;t act according to the Will of the People. Moreover, it goes against democratic politics.&#8221;  Deng Xiaoping, 16th March 1941<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"footnote\">Quoted in David S. G. Goodman <em>Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945<\/em>  Rowman &#038; Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ML, 2000, p61.  Cited as in Deng Xiaoping &#8220;Guanyu chengli JinJiYu bianqu linshi canyihui de tiyi&#8221; in <em>Balujun zongbu zai Matian<\/em> Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 1990, p29.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Communists always oppose a one-party dictatorship, and don&#8217;t approve of the Nationalists having a one-party dictatorship. The CCP certainly doesn&#8217;t have a program to monopolise government because one party can only rule in its own interests and won&#8217;t act according to the Will of the People. Moreover, it goes against democratic politics.&#8221; Deng Xiaoping,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,165,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-china","category-sino-japanese-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}