[Jordi]

A more fitting comparasion for nowdays China are the Third Reich and Imperial Japan. Of course those were Fascist regimes, not Comminists, but who cares. In the last 20 years China develped a strong industrial base, and its GDP increased dramatically to become the world 2nd largest (and still growing 8% this year). The regime is fully aware that only capitalism produces wealth,and that wealth is necessary to be powerful. It gives great importance to education and know-how theft ; enterprenaural initiatives (albeit in a deeply corrupt enviroment) are flourishing. The masterminds of the party are growing up a medium class of reltively wealth and highly nationalistic city dwellers ,to be the leading class of such "new China". The productive system doesn't have Jews to exploit like the Nazis had, but they have some 700-800 millions of starving peasants:cheap slave-like workforce. Anybody opposing the regime is put to death immediately.

[Lessismore]

Peter Drucker is a much better guide to governing the high-performance state than Thomas Jefferson. Provided, of course, that corruption can be controled and succession managed properly.