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While talking about political reform in China has always been a no no, the country used to be...

  • Sunday, June 17, 2012, 10:19 AM ET
    While talking about political reform in China has always been a no no, the country used to be open to discussion of free-market reform and rolling back the state. But not anymore. Take Peking University professor Zhang Weiying, a supporter of Milton Friedman who is on a forced Sabbatical and whose interviews and speeches are absent from the mainstream press.
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    Economic freedom equals freedom. Many immigrants came to the US for just such a reason. China only uses capitalistic methods to ensure they don't lose control of over 1 billion people who were poverty stricken under communism. This is a tool only to continue state control and it manifests itself when people push for freedom of speech, assembly and what not. The tanks roll in.
    17 Jun 2012, 11:18 AM Reply Like
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    More to the point, neither country uses just capitalism, they just use enough capitalism to keep things ticking.
    17 Jun 2012, 02:24 PM Reply Like
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    Interesting that they would use something that works in order to push for something that doesn't.

    But power corrupts.

    Our left here do something similar but more ignorant. They point to what works, capitalism, then decry it, pointing to what doesn't work, government, to save them.

    We need to give China our leftist bretheren here as a gift. Then China wouldn't need to use the ruse.
    17 Jun 2012, 11:37 AM Reply Like
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    I will drink to that....Great comments I will ponder this day.
    17 Jun 2012, 12:32 PM Reply Like
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