To accomplish that, they have had to loosen up on internal communications, as well as external communications. They can't tighten back down on commo without hurting their economy and causing unrest. But the commo also brings info about the rest of the world to the average citizen. They are well along on the process of liberalization and can't back up now. They are committed, whether they like it or not.

Remember, in my adult lifetime, everybody there wore Mao suits and carried a copy of "The Quotations of Chairman Mao" on them at all times.

Those 20 cities that you mention will continue to bring in new ideas that will flow out to all the country.

They will become a democracy. It may take another 30 years, but it will happen.

Yeah, one problem is people vote for what benefits themselves and not the country, a form of extortion in my opinion which leaves every policitan pandering.

i hope your wishful thinking is true. if not we are creating our own downfall. i veiw china as nothing more than an envious rival, who will say and do anything to get to the top. i try my very best not to support nations that hold political prisoners and slaves. kill or imprison people who worship their respective god. value and devalue thier currency to undermine world economies. build long range missles that are pointed toward my family and country. i find these things offensive,as any american should. if you theory is that money will do away with evil........i think there is an old saying about that......

"Give me a break, our "capitalist pigs" have produced the most wealth of any country in history."

Too bad all that wealth is mortgaged to socialist countries, isn't it?

One step further, a rather large group votes for what they believe will benefit them, whether its a larger share of spending on irresponsible social programs, or a bridge to nowhere....

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Not wishful thinking. Read "The J Curve". It is about how a nation moves from a closed to an open society and that nation's political stability. Combine that with free market economics which is the decentralization of the economy. Result is that they can't go back.

It is not an "old saying". Jesus said, "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil." But you are not understanding either money or economics. Money is a method of measuring personal power. In a centralized economy, all the money (decision making power) is concentrated in the hands of a few. But as the Chinese economy become more free market, it decentralizes the decision making so the the top loses a share of power, even as the economy grows.

The very nature of a free market undercuts the power of those on top. It is a quiet, peaceful, and happy revolution. It will put the leadership of China in a quandry. To make China richer, they have to give up more of their power. But if they love having their power too much, then they restrict the market and China loses money, and they have a larger share of power in a less powerful country.

Look at North Korea vs South Korea. Kim has ALL the power, and his country is desperately poor - one of the poorest on the earth. SK, the gov't has less share of power, but the country has become an economic powerhouse.

The tighter the dictatorship, the worse the country performs economically. It is like having an increasing share of a declining market. You finally end up as the only seller of vacuum tubes when everybody is buying transistors.

mexico has taken its fair share of factories from around the world. while conditions are better there than say thirty years ago, just barley.there is no end to their political corruption.poverty and crime are stapels of the cities that house these factories. things like nafta havnt changed there lives enough to stop them from swimming the rio grande and illegaly working for four bucks an hour.as i have said before companies locate to places like mexico and china because they offer conditions of poverty and weakness to be exploited. it is in the best intrest of chinese goverment to keep a large percentage of there population poor and dependent. the upper, ruling class will be the recipiants of unbelievable wealth and power. that is how it has always been in china and mexico. now more than ever. nothing the chinese have ever invented, which is alot, ever benifited the common citizen. this is no differnt. the wealth we openly send them goes to the communist goverment. funding more of the same.places like mexico or guatamala or hounduras have plenty of western factories and are far from wealthy or even truley free. until they are i dont spare it a second thought for china.

Companies move overseas because liberals in America do their best to make sure corporations based here at home make no profit. If you are making money, then you must be doing something evil, and/or not paying your workers enough. So eventually you force all major businesses to leave America and find a place where their business can prosper.

gee maybe we should pay people $2-3 an hour like in mexico or better yet $2-3 a day like in china. or maybe we should just pay you that.

It isnt a matter of paying people unlivable wages like that. There are strikes going on all the time where the Union demands are unreasonable. For example if you'll recall the big strike at Lockheed Martin not that long ago. The Lockheed executives sat down with the union leaders and showed them the corporate budget. They showed them exactly what the company could afford to do. But that isnt good enough for the union, they could give a rats ass if the company is profitable or not so long as their unreasonable demands are met. Or what about the big fuss over Wal Mart? The problem I see in alot of these cases, is that people try to make a career out of a job that they should have held for a couple years after highschool while they paid off their student loans. These people will go and be a greeter at Wal Mart, or a night restocker at Raley's, and they want to get raises every year along with full medical coverage. Raley's is not a career damnit! Go and get an education if you want better pay. You want a company to pay you like they want you around, then make them want you around! Make yourself valuable! Jesus Christ, these people think that they can pick any job, and then their chosen employer is required to make possible their desired lifestyle. Yah, why shouldnt a company pay somebody 3 dollars an hour if that is what the work is worth? You want more than that, go somewhere else where they will pay it. Make yourself worth more than 3 dollars an hour god damnit.