Which of the following best describes china’s status during the 1980s? china was a reunified state. china was a communist power. china was a democratic nation. china was an independent state.

The correct option is: "China was a Communist power."

Since 1978, economic reforms began in two phases. The first phase, at the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, involved the de-collectivization of agriculture, the opening of the country to foreign investment and the permission for entrepreneurs to start businesses. However, most of the industry remained static and inefficient, burdening economic growth. The second phase of the reform, at the end of the 80s and 90s, involved the privatization and contracting of most of the nationalized industry and the lifting of price controls, protectionist policies and regulations, although public monopolies in sectors such as banking and oil remained. The private sector grew remarkably, reflecting almost 70% of China's GDP for 2005, a larger figure compared to many Western nations.

letter d is correct.

answer: a parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature, typically a parliament, and is also held accountable to that parliament. in a parliamentary system, the head of state is usually a person distinct from the head of government. this is in contrast to a presidential system, where the head of state often is also the head of government and, most importantly, the executive does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.

countries with parliamentary democracies may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (such as the united kingdom, denmark, sweden, and japan), or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is regularly from the legislature (such as ireland, germany, india, and italy). in a few parliamentary republics, such as botswana, south africa, and suriname, among some others, the head of government is also head of state, but is elected by and is answerable to parliament. in bicameral parliaments, the head of government is generally, though not always, a member of the lower house.

parliamentarianism is the dominant form of government in europe, with 32 of its 50 sovereign states being parliamentarian. it is also common in the caribbean, being the form of government of 10 of its 13 island states, and in oceania. elsewhere in the world, parliamentary countries are less common, but they are distributed through all continents, most often in former colonies of the british empire that subscribe to a particular brand of parliamentarianism known as the westminster system.

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