111.   Democracy has never been part of the equation.

112.   Democracy is a fragile thing.

113.   Democracy is its own legitimizing force.

114.   Democracy is still far from free-wheeling in several states of the region.

115.   Democracy is the single most threatening thing to the leadership in China.

116.   Democracy nowadays is much stronger, prosperity much more widely spread.

117.   Democracy really is dull.

118.   Democratic peace theorists have been less persuasive about the reasons democracies are pacific toward one another.

119.   Established democracies may be relatively peaceful, but countries undergoing democratization are even less peaceful than dictatorships.

120.   Even in the most optimistic of scenarios, democracy is not about to spring forth full-blown in China any time soon.