ABSTRACT
In April 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reportedly distributed a confidential Communique´ on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere. The content of this document, referred to in short-hand as Document No. 9, was leaked to journalists and is said to have been released by the General Office of the Party’s Central Committee and approved by the central leadership.1 According to these reports, the secret communique´ lists seven contemporary perils, with the first among them being the promotion of constitutional democracy. Building on the party-state’s
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Dingding Chena and atrin inzelbachb,c
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AND THE CHALLENGES
own analysis in Document No 9, we offer a summary of current domestic and external democratization pressures vis-a`-vis China, and the CCP’s response to them. We then ask whether or not the People’s Republic is pursuing an equally determined strategy to halt democratization outside China’s borders as well.2
