I simply recognize that I can’t change anything about China and it isn’t my place to even try. The only reason I have an opinion about China is because I want to try and learn from their successes. China provides a good example of how to subordinate capitalist development to the will of a powerful political party. Markets can be disciplined.

The border disputes in the South China Sea are coming from every country involved, by the way. It isn’t just big bad China bullying smaller countries, all countries involved are violating each others’ territorial waters:

Minister Susi Pudjiastuti revealed in a statement that ANTARA received here on Monday that 26 of the 556 illegal boats were Indonesian-flagged ones, while 321 Vietnamese, 91 Filipino, 87 Malaysian, 24 from Thailand, two of Papua New Guinea, three from China, and one each from Nigeria and Belize.

But you only hear about China because they are the Designated Bad Guy.