"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Read this - it will completely blow that argument out of the water.

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led
by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can
also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the
politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move
a society forward in the 21st century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/op...dman.html?_r=3

"Reasonably enlightened" - China.

WTF?


So, I guess you don't believe in free speech or a free press? I believe he's
a columnist and writing this in the Opinion column.

How about this one? Who wrote it? Go ahead google it up...

".... free-trade policies require laying off workers. And, opening markets
to foreign trade puts enormous pressure on traditional retailers and trade
monopolies. This leads to growing income gaps and social tensions, which in
turn can lead a range of attacks on US firms, from terrorism to government
attempts to reverse priviatizations or roll back trade incentives."

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