[skinnymuch]

“Used for a specific thing”. Democracy doesn’t mean liberalism. You can’t take a word and make up a meaning. Democracy is a govt that is the will of the people. China is quite literally democratic per that definition. While Europe and the west are not at all.

Also electoralism isn’t democracy. The west is not the entire world. What the west says does not make things so.

[Yizahi]

I'm not sure what do you mean by liberalism or electoralism or even a will of a people. Especially in this context.

Democracy is a power of citizens to decide on the governing of a country they live in. This doesn't happen anywhere nowadays, except in Switzerland, where "demos"=people can actually execute their will of majority "kratos" to vote on the governing of their country. With some limitations of course, but it is a real democracy.

Other western countries have an elective oligarchy, and people can't decide on what those oligarchs will vote on, the system is indirect.

And China is pure and simple autocracy. A despotia governed a by a single man plus his cronies. There is no election process in China, so demos is completely separated from governing, there is not even indirect link.