Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Information and the rule of law

Full article (need subscription)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/329a67d8-2859-11de-8dbf-00144feabdc0.html

Quote on another news site
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/04/michael-skapinker-china-needs-reform-to-become-world-class/
Is China’s authoritarian capitalist model in a position to supplant the west’s democratic one? Can China’s one-party system shift its economy from low-cost manufacturing to sophisticated services?
Most people I spoke to said no – not without China becoming a very different society. For China to move to the next stage requires two things, they said: the free flow of information and the rule of law.

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