Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the Six Four Incident.  This date in history reminds us that obtaining freedom takes a long time but losing it can happen quickly.   Thirty years ago I thought with the reforms China was undergoing, that capitalism will lead to democracy soon in China.  Turns out in a few days, China went backwards quickly.

 Economically China recovered and kept marching upward after that.  It is not true capitalism but the system is closer to capitalism than socialism and nothing like old communism.  Freedom continues to be on hold.  Chinese are able to study and travel abroad with less restrictions.  But in their own country, the Chinese cannot see censored sites on the internet.  You can't find an objective view on Six Four on the internet in China for example.  And don't think about protesting against the government too loudly.

So progress for freedom is slow but at least we didn't go back to the Mao era of the Cultural Revolution.  I think eventually the progress for the economy will slow.  In order for China to advance and challenge the U.S., it will need to innovate.   Innovation is much harder to come by if freedom is restricted.  Eventually maybe a Chinese leader will see this and take the country out of dictatorship as Deng had taken the country out of the communist economic system.