The late Bob Bartley, Editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, and the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page before that, is one of America’s most outstanding and respected Conservative thinkers.
Right on China, free markets, and most other things as well.
Democracy will emerge once a “mature socialist system” develops but that might not happen for up to 100 years, Premier Wen Jiabao wrote in an article in the People’s Daily, the main Communist Party newspaper.
For now, China must focus on “sustained rapid growth of productive forces … to finally secure fairness and social justice that lies within the essence of socialism,” Wen wrote.