> brutal anti-labor policies. At this point, China is far worse than almost
> any country's economic policies, since they combine capitalist laissez-faire
> towards workers with brutal undemocratic anti-union policies.
Nonsense. It's a peasant country undergoing industrialization, but the CCP is taking on many of the functions of a developmental state, i.e. investing heavily R & D, education, science, maintaining a semblance of income equity via corporatist schemes, tightly regulating finance capital, etc. In terms of the economic payoff, Chinese workers have seen their real wages skyrocket in recent years. Tiananmen Square wasn't a rebellion of the starving, but of the well-fed.
-- Dennis