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China is on a different path. Its leaders are prepared to allow greater popular participation in political decisions if and when it is conducive to economic development and favorable to the country’s national interests, as they have done in the past 10 years.
From Wikipedia: “A 2011 survey shown that 60% of Chinese millionaires plan to immigrate, mostly to the USA or Canada. The EB-5 Investment Visa allows many powerful Chinese to seek for a USA citizenship, and recent reports show that 75% of applicants to this visa in 2011 were Chinese.”
In 1990 I became friends with a recent Chinese immigrant to the U.S., who had graduated from Beijing University, married an American and came to the U.S. because as she put it there was no future for educated women in that country. A number of female friends from college would eventually follow her. Obviously, the existence of women graduates from one of the best universities in the world means something. But laws requiring 50% membership of women that are met with less than half that amount and equal pay laws that exert little influence in society are signs of something else; a disconnect between government and the governed.
Self-government is not simply elections, its a process where coalitions are formed that empower minorities, and the wishes of the governed facilitate the rule of law.
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