[.cnI redruM]

China is beginning to feel pressured to join the civilized world as it simultaneosly joins that world's economy and markets. Lok for tensions w/in China to increase as a result.

[The Pheonix]

Historically, the feudal Imperial mindset of the Ruling dynasties was to dish out very harsh punishment to criminals, to maintain a very strong "LAW and ORDER", in order to preserve the Dynasty. Not forgetting it was not easy to rule such a vast country like China, before the invention of the telephone, telegraph, fax, email, airplane, hence the IRON-FIST was the way

Now, with China more exposed to the outside world, HOPEFULLY, China will modernize nd progress on its legal and judgical system

[lelio]

China is beginning to feel pressured to join the civilized world

The US is slowly coming around to that too with the recent House Judiciary Committee action to strip the requirement that all federal agencies must look to Federal Prision Industries (FPI) to supply their products and services.
FPI's made up of 21k inmates and had $680M in sales. They're not just making license plates but rather items like furniture, directly competing with private industry.