The rule of law comes when people try to protect their properties. It is hard to apply when you have nothing to lose. If you want to apply it from the top, you

The rule of law comes when people try to protect their properties. It is hard to apply when you have nothing to lose. If you want to apply it from the top, you will need a dictator to do that. Take Chinese IP issue as an example, there are more and more laws to protect IP (of course, still not as good as western standard), the reason is that Chinese companies start to develop their own IP, and they need to protect them. The same for private properties, there was no law before 90s I believe, now people own things, their properties will be protected.