> Historians would point toward a pressure toward democratization of states that occurs as the middle class gains more power. Historians didn't have anything t

> Historians would point toward a pressure toward democratization of states that occurs as the middle class gains more power. Historians didn't have anything to do with all the decisions that were made by politicians making deals with China. It was the financial industry and the politicians they finance who came up with bullshit PR to convince the public opinion that China would magically become a democracy if the west started free trade with China. No historian was ever consulted unless it was to give credit to that PR campaign. Now did a significant part of the chinese population become wealthier as the result? Yes, it doesn't change the fact that China was, is and will be a bloody dictatorship, for a long time, by western standards. The west needed to outsource slavery for economic purposes, as always, the west got them slaves.