Have you been to China recently? I have. The government may be authoritarian, even dictatorial in many ways, but the amount of political and economic freedom enjoyed by people there is, relatively speaking, amazing to see.
I mean, there are a billion people in China. It's unrealistic to imagine that it will turn into some kind of democratic wonderland overnight.
The KMT party in Taiwan is staunchly opposed to independence. Their likelihood of victory in the next national election is fairly high.
"The government may be authoritarian, even dictatorial in many ways, but the amount of political freedom"
Did you visit the "Fantastic China" Epcot-type park in Florida? That seems to be where you expressions of political freedom in China come from.
There is zero political freedom in China. There is one political force and only that political force is permitted, period. Those that disagree on that issue are jailed and killed, often with their organs sold as the means of achieving their killing.
There is only one party approved set of candidates at any level of government (or union, or industry trade association, or school board, or academic committee, or parents association, etc., etc., etc.)
You really have no idea what political freedom is do you? Again, the mis-education of your profession has left you totally without the principled base of any "conservatism" you profess to have; as in many of your comments about Rudy, like on his abortion stance.
The principles at stake in Roe v Wade are not about abortion, pro or con; they are about the proper role of the judiciary; they are about whether or not our Constitution begins with the words "We the People" instead of "We the Judges". The issue is not about how Rudy thinks about abortion. The issue is about will he appoint judges who will defend the Constitution or will he appoint judges who want to rewrite it from the bench, one ruling at a time. That cannot be a matter of even what a judge thinks about abortion. It must be a matter of whether or not the judges understand the Constitutional limits of their role and the limits of their powers within that role - based on the division of those powers by the Constitution.
I doubt if you understand the ramifications of that, with your concept of "freedom" you see in China today.