[Vaden]

You can’t be serious. China has NO history of freedom. Those people have been told what to do for 5,000 years. They are moving AWAY from what little freedom they granted. They are clamping down even harder on their people. And at a time when their economy is slowly but surely running out of legs. The demographic disaster awaiting China (fastest aging in world history) in the future ensures she will suffer a collapse of untold proportions and remain poor. Within 10 years it will begin to depopulate and within 30 years, 40% of it’s population will be over age 65 and will slowly sap away it’s vitality. Not to mention it’s wildly out of balance gender disproportion-too many males and not enough females.

Most of Asia is totalitarian and/or awesomely corrupt.

[Reily]

Very likely in the Ext 25-50 years China will lapse into warlordism again, it always does!

[PeterPrinciple]

You can’t be serious. China has NO history of freedom.

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Yes I am serious. Take you “history” glasses off and observe the trend. I said trend. They are gaining more freedom, we are getting less. It is relative.

The freedoms they have given their people are going to be hard to put back in the bottle.