Agree 100%!

>Change from one social model to other is slow and painfull process. Very few countries had it nice & easy. I cried watching happening
>of Tiananmen, but perhaps I am getting old and my sences are shuttered. I am no longer 100% sure that this revolution would have been sucessfull and good for Chineese people at that point in time. Slow but sure economical revolution that is happening now
>turning them slowly into rich and powerfull country is perhaps much better for them. It will end up eventually as some sort of
>democracy.
A large number of the student leaders during Tiananmen Square are also having second thoughts...

>How good this is for west is another story all together. My nostrils tell me that it is exactly that success of China what
>microvawed western 'care' about HR in China.
Really? Are those the same people told the world that go into Iraq is to spread freedom?

Chinese people are genuinly much happier and better off.
I really enjoyed the Olympics, because:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/COL01/808250346/1081/COL
(He is one one of my favorite sports writers, he did not have a favorable view about China before he went and covered the Olympics)

Jun