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Originally Posted by Vronsky
China's transformation to democracy will be their biggest challenge in the next decade. Once they have a significant middle class, China will need democracy to sustain its economic development. The big question is how this political reform will take place. Are their current (former communist) leaders willing and capable to share or even hand over their power? Russia's example so far is not very promising. It's really too early to tell if China will able to make that shift, and be that global economic power it now appears it will be.
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I meet a lot of people who travel to China. They all report one thing, that the people of China are very happy with the way things are. There is an abundance of two things communism could never bring - consumer goods and good jobs. They also have the benefits of socialism, free health care and free education at all levels. China is becoming very democratic at the local level, but it still needs reforms at the national level. Most citizens think this will happen when the old bulls in the Politboro are dead.