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# Feel good about democracy in China ?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/feel-good-about-democracy-in-china/
- Published: 2008-01-23T11:01:22.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:10.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** The hacks accompanying Gordon Brown to China felt intimidated by its one-party state security system. Quite right too. But I have a feeling that China is on the move on this front as well, driven by environmental necessity as tracked by the grown up daughter of openDemocracy [ChinaDialogue](http://www.chinadialogue.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net). Take a read of this heart-warming story of what can be done. Popular protest over the absurd third Heathrow runway may be ground down in our Kingdom but in Xiamen, as [Li Datong reports in oD](http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china%5Finside/china%5Fprotests%5For%5Fpolitics), the people put their foot down, turned their text message functions on - and won.