As you can see, the response to your post sarcastically suggesting an invasion of China, was a rather cynical view on your post. Democracies are not benign do gooders. Democracy is what the rich suffer gladly because it best suits their ends. But China, unlike Hong Kong, seems to have found a way for the rich to get richer keeping the poor on the job and of little drain on their profits. The political system of democracy is really the side-effect of an economic balance between all the interests. It is not a natural order, as the carnivores were never voted their eaters by the herbivores, nor the latter by all the plants. It is based on the development of a symbiosis between power and the masses. That balance is kept in the middle by the middle class lawyers and police officers. It manages to settle on a limit to its avarice, not needing the endless growth ambition of the predatory captains of industry. In sum, democracy may well be a fluke kept going by the fact that enough people in it say that they will settle for peace and security at the cost of only getting economically as much as they have. But the predators and prey are still given an arena in which to fight on, even if it has to be within the tolerated crime space. That may be all a weird balance to replace the days of the dinosaurs. But, had a large meteor not hit the earth, the dinosaurs would still be dominant eating eachother. A reset button was pressed from outerspace to bring us back to smaller animals with bigger brains. Like "democracy" it may seem like intelligent design, but it may really be an epiphenomenon that even GW Bush with all his "transformed" armies, following all of Fukuyama's and the neocons' advice, cannot reproduce where it does not exist.

The aspects of Western Culture that are needed by all nations are respect for the individual, self rule, and liberty. These values need not be permanently identified with Western culture and more than gun powder is considered Chinese. Great ideas transcend their cultural birth place.