Figure 1. Training Programs offered by MexicoFirst Source: MexicoFirst (www.mexico-first.org)

As a Chinese working on public sector governance and living in India, I'm often asked to compare the two governing systems, the largest democracy in the world and the largest non-democracy in…

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