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Originally Posted by DementedReality
well, China may be the flagship for communism but in the streets you wont find a more pure caplitalistic enviroment.
goto a market and there arent even prices on items. everything is negotiated and the price will change if you are a gwilo or a local and of course how well you can speak broken calculator english.
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I've been of the mind for years to call China a Communism in name only. Their actions are much closer aligned to a single party system. If they dropped the name from the title of thier country, nothing would really change.
More on topic...I think it'll be interesting to see what the role the Internet will play when the economy of the Chinese begins to slow. My theory has been that the tolerance of such an oppressive government is only tolerated as it is bringing in wealth. When that vanishes, people will have no reason to support a government that has this kind of dissent from the populace.