Michael Dolan Dot Com

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

China has done a remarkable turnaround to truly become the growth platform for untold innovation and opportunity in the coming decades. But there are still signs of leadership not truly embracing an open environment. Just as Thomas Friedman pointed out in “The World is Flat” there are some things emerging countries find hard to let go of. In China, it seems to be freedom of press and censorship:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9480527/

How does a country become a truly global leader when it’s own citizenry are only partially informed? Like I said in the title, this is a step back. Is China a new study of “compassionate totalitariansim” – totalitarian, but allows exceptions when the state economically benefits?

I just hope no citizen of China reads this and ends up in prison. If your in China, don’t link my RSS feed!