The irony: rather than our Western ways infiltrating into China and turning it safely democratic, China's new wealth is instead influencing our biggest companies to turn into callous censors for a vicious totalitarian state.
That's because far too many in decision making capacities at corporations are all gaga about "whorled peas." They think they are doing really good work - "stitching together the global village." They think that by doing this, at some point, they'll be able to coerce unfree societies into becoming little quip spewing Thomas L. Friedman clones. They are a covey of Chamberlains, uttering the mantra "peace in our time."