An alternative to this line of argument is to claim that China has its own kind of democracy, based on a Confucian idea of government benevolence and the Chinese people’s cultural propensity to sacrifice individual rights to collective goods. To those who take this view – and on this point many Western businessmen are in complete agreement with the Chinese Communist Party – the signatories of Charter 08 are simply out of touch with their own culture.
这一论调的另一个说法就是，中国具有自身民主形式，它建立在孔夫子政府仁义以及中国文化偏向于为了集体利益而牺牲个人权利的基础之上。许多西方经商人士完全赞同中共这一观点。对于那些持这一观点的人而言，零八宪章的签署人完全脱离了自身的文化。