James Maan has an article on China in the Washington Post titled:
A Shining Model of Wealth Without Liberty
. He starts the article with, "The Iraq war isn't over, but one thing's already clear: China won." The Asian model for capitalism, or the Development-State as Chalmers Johnson calls it, has been around since Japan popularised it in the 1950s. A development-state tends to be autocratic and one party, generally that is the only way the state can override property liberties and people's concerns in order to develop at the ten percent a year pace.
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