WikiLeaks: China's Politburo a cabal of business empires

China's ruling Politburo is a cabal of business empires that puts vested interests over the needs of the poor and curtails media freedoms to avoiding having shady business deals exposed in the press, according to a leaked US government diplomatic cable.

The damning description of China's secretive leadership machinations also described how the descendants of China's Communist revolutionaries – known as "princelings" – derided officials from less august revolutionary backgrounds as mere "shopkeepers".

The assessment of what motivates China's opaque top-level decision-makers was relayed to Washington in July 2009 in one of the 250,000 cables published by the WikiLeaks website.

"China's top leadership had carved up China's economic 'pie,'" the US embassy contact said, "creating an ossified system in which 'vested interests' drove decision-making and impeded reform as leaders maneuvered to ensure that those interests were not threatened." The US embassy contact also asserted there were no "reformers" within the top Communist Party leadership, only competing factions that sought to protect their business empires from attack by in-coming leaderships.

The Chinese have endured as a nation and people under such a system for thousands of years. It might be oppressive, but, in the long run, it seems to work.

Well, we need to keep in mind, where China is coming from and where it is going.

The concept of democracy and people living apart from indentured servitude is a new concept just in the last couple hundred of years.

Even here in America, whole sale enslavement of an entire segment of the American population end just 145 years ago. The Northern states ended indentured servitude and slavery long before that, and was a thriving prosperous society. The Southern states did not end it and was poor. And until the later half of the 20th century, remained far behind the North.

China's current economic rise and thrust onto world stage has to doing with a DECREASING OPPRESION in China. Sure, China is not to a point of the West is today, but getting better and getting closer to Western way of thinking (admittedly, there will be those outside of China and even in that would disagree with me).

But China's economic rise, at its very core and its very root, has more to do with the general population, the government, etc. becoming LESS OPPRESSIVE than it once was. And becoming less so as the decades pass.

I forsee a day, when China may end up teaching the West about respecting human rights.

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