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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Can you rephrase this sentence?

"For if strengthening China is the overriding purpose of politics, and then arguably democracy may be less effective then other political systems."

Does it mean this:

For if strengthening China is the overriding purpose of politics, then arguably democracy may be less effective then other political systems.
  

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" Does it mean this: For if strengthening China is the overriding purpose of politics, then arguably democracy may be less effective then other political systems. The 'and' is certainly ungrammatical, and is perhaps a typo of some kind. The word 'then' should also be 'than'.

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Hi,

"For if strengthening China is the overriding purpose of politics, and then arguably democracy may be less effective then other political systems."

Does it mean this:

For if strengthening China is the overriding purpose of politics, then arguably democracy may be less effective then other political systems.

The 'and' is certainly ungrammatical, and is perha