I really want to focus on Larry Diamond’s comments to Wang’s article  because I think he made some very interesting points. He started off by saying he agrees the CCP has been transitioning  for a long time, but he questions what they are transitioning to. China’s communist ideology is starting to loose its legitimacy. For example, China’s youth are starting to joke about the CCP  and  the only reason they are competing for membership is so for instrumental and careerist reasons. Although the CCP  has doe vert little to benefit  china in the last 20 years they are doing everything  they can to remain in power and so it  is essential the people in China play along.

The CCP has been acting as if political reform has been taking place and it is effective, but in reality the economy has not changed much since the 1990s. The CCP has not made too many strides closer to democracy. The Three Represent that is claimed to be this big political reform is really a brilliant adaptation for the CCP to continue Domination. I really question what was supposed to be such a big reform by  including more parties under the the Communist Party? Diamond does mention the changes that China has made, but t he reason I think they have gone unnoticed is because they have not been significant enough to make a change. A change that has been made is in the attitude and values of the Chinese people and he believes this could be what ends the CCP. I am not too sure of the affects of the downfall of the Communist Party yet, but I am rooting for  the people to rise against the CCP and government. Diamond believes that democracy should be the answer at the end of all of this. I  agree, but I do not thin that is going to be the answer  it seems very plausible  that China  might try and model it off Singapore’s government. I have no evident to support this, but it seems like China  is trying to avoid  a Democracy and modeling its government after the West even though most of the powerful countries in the world are democracies now days.