Opinion of these protestors

[Sewer]

trade is by far the greatest factor in encouraging authoritarian nations to change.

what is this i don't even

[Sewer]

trade is by far the greatest factor in encouraging authoritarian nations to change.

what is this i don't even

You need only look at perestroika for confirmation of this rule: authoritarian nations, when placed under the democratizing pressures of the international market, either fold or change before the influence of democratic First World nations. 

democratizing pressures of the international market?


what is that i don't even

[Sewer]

trade is by far the greatest factor in encouraging authoritarian nations to change.

what is this i don't even

You need only look at perestroika for confirmation of this rule: authoritarian nations, when placed under the democratizing pressures of the international market, either fold or change before the influence of democratic First World nations. 

democratizing pressures of the international market?

The Soviet Union didn't fall because of Reagan's ludicrous defense spending, conservative whining to the contrary. It fell because it underwent massive trade liberalization in the 1980s, and its inefficient authoritarian domestic economy couldn't compete with the economies of the Western democracies.

China's authoritarian economy can compete with the economies of the Western democracies.

[Sewer]

trade is by far the greatest factor in encouraging authoritarian nations to change.

what is this i don't even

You need only look at perestroika for confirmation of this rule: authoritarian nations, when placed under the democratizing pressures of the international market, either fold or change before the influence of democratic First World nations. 

democratizing pressures of the international market?

The Soviet Union didn't fall because of Reagan's ludicrous defense spending, conservative whining to the contrary. It fell because it underwent massive trade liberalization in the 1980s, and its inefficient authoritarian domestic economy couldn't compete with the economies of the Western democracies.

China's authoritarian economy can compete with the economies of the Western democracies.

Not internally, which is why the flow of trade from China is one-way. If trade in the Chinese interior were liberalized to foreign markets, it would collapse rapidly.

Too bad it will not liberalize.