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> V-dem, Bertelsmann, and EDI literally has scores for China.

I think you confuse being listed on those indices with being a democracy.

On V-dem China takes place 177 of 179, the Bertelsmann index categorized China as "hard-line autocracy" and EDI categorizes it as "authoritarian"

"A list of democracies that don't score non-democracies" having China by definition means the indexes consider China a democracy.

> "A list of democracies that don't score non-democracies"

This definition is nowhere to be found. I assume it's your interpretation, which, as already said, is flawed.

For example Saudi Arabia is listed on all of those indices even though its an absolute monarchy and the poster child for an autocracy.