>>>Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Here's a few articles from what I gue

>>>Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Here's a few articles from what I guess would be contrarian authors then. [1][2] Personally I always thought the idea that China would becoming progressively democratic to be deluded. There are enough examples of well-managed authoritarian capitalism producing good results in Asia for the Chinese to not change course, to say nothing of the inherent greed of the Princelings who directly benefit from their positions of power. [1]https://web.archive.org/web/20180918212727/http://www.aei.org/publication/chinas-stubborn-anti-democracy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180918212727/http://www.aei.or... [2]https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-slow-road-democracy https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-slow-road-democracy