Not quite "Tear down this wall...!" but it'll have to do.
Its more like "why can't you be more like your little brother [who is so much better than you at absolutely everything]"
Not too likely. In China, as in the Middle East, 90+% of the time "mercy","benevolence", and "freedom" are looked upon with suspicion, as weakness, or a combination of both. The powers-that-be in China know that more freedoms is often the first clod of dirt on the(ir) coffin --politically and often literally.