Is China less free?

mpowell's picture

B/W of the Canadian National Post comes an interesting note by David Frum:

David Frum questions conventional wisdom, noting: “Most China experts — and almost all world leaders — have long predicted that the country’s economic advance would force its leaders to liberalize and democratize. That prediction is looking wrong. Indeed, the opposite seems to have happened: China today is a more politically repressive society than it was in the mid-1980s.”

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