Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China

Re:Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger ... by tokenadult on Saturday November 09, 2013 @07:08AM (#6701415)

Now more than ever, it is clear that no American social networking media company will ever have substantial market share in China. The Chinese government will never let it fly, it's as simple as that.

A free market in Internet companies in China is not possible until regime change in China. I think a change in government in China to a post-communist system is moderately possible, although various geopolitical trade-offs have caused this to take longer in China than it did in most parts of eastern Europe. The bubble economy in China makes it likely that there will be internal pressure there for regime change when the bubble pops.

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Re:Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger ... by w1ntermute on Saturday November 09, 2013 @08:38AM (#6701589)

> I think a change in government in China to a post-communist system is moderately possible

Transitions in other Asian countries from authoritarian (which is what China is right now) to democratic governments typically coincided with the populace reaching a certain level of wealth and education.

I don't see that level being reached in China any time soon because the sort of accelerated export-oriented growth that worked in other Asian countries won't work when you have more than a billion people. China is still very far from the levels of wealth and prosperity in Korea or Taiwan when they transitioned to democracy.

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