Editing Elections in China (section)

==Criticism==
The performed elections in China do not meet [[free and fair election]] criteria such as [[Nomination rules|ballot access]] and political media access.<ref name="BishopHoeffler">{{cite journal |last1=Bishop |first1=Sylvia |last2=Hoeffler |first2=Anke |date=2016 |title=Free and fair elections: A new database |journal=[[Journal of Peace Research]] |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=608–616 |doi=10.1177/0022343316642508 |s2cid=110571606}}</ref> Freedom of political speech and freedom of political assembly are all severely restricted by the government.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |title=China: Freedom on the Net 2022 Country Report |url=https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-net/2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123114002/https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-net/2022 |archive-date=2023-01-23 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=[[Freedom House]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":16">{{Citation |last= |title=China: Events of 2020 |date=2021-01-13 |work= |url=https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/china-and-tibet |access-date=2022-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729034121/https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/china |archive-date=2024-07-29 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |language=en}}</ref> The general Chinese public has virtually no say on how the top leaders of the country are elected.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last1=Gan |first1=Nectar |last2=George |first2=Steve |date=2021-12-08 |title=China claims its authoritarian one-party system is a democracy -- and one that works better than the US |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/china/china-us-democracy-summit-mic-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607142504/https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/china/china-us-democracy-summit-mic-intl-hnk/index.html |archive-date=2022-06-07 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=[[CNN]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":11" /> [[Censorship in China|Political censorship]] is widespread and [[Protest and dissent in China|political dissent]] is harshly punished in the country.<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last1=Bradsher |first1=Keith |author-link=Keith Bradsher |last2=Myers |first2=Steven Lee |date=2021-12-07 |title=Ahead of Biden's Democracy Summit, China Says: We're Also a Democracy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/china-biden-democracy-summit.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215211244/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/china-biden-democracy-summit.html |archive-date=2022-12-15 |access-date=2022-12-16 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>