Dear Dear Authoritarianism

May I first to quote a passage from which is written by the last governor of Hong Kong-Chris Patten:

"...Totalitarian political structures and market economics are poor bedfellows; the attempt to exercise absolute power cannot encompass the exercise of economic choice. Authoritarian structures and market economics, on the other hand, can find it easier to sleep together, though I doubt whether they can do so for very long or as soundly as they would like. Why not? Because markets depend on freedom - the freedom of the producer and the customer. Instructions do not bind from top to bottom. The price mechanism is the scale by which economic activity finds its balance..."

This is a clear point of view illustrated the contradiction between market economics and authoritarianism.

PRC government, usually sticks to a line that authoritarianism is superior to democracy, even using the example of Singapore, shamelessly upholding the notion of the Asian values, which has been proven that it is not the cause of the success for those handful of well developed Asian countries after the Asian finacial crisis in 1998, to justify the rule of the communist party of CHN within the authoritarian regime.

Qestions are coming. Does CHN embrace desperately the market economics? Yes. Does CHN run an authoritarian regime? Yes. Surely, the show now is getting interesting. How can an authoritarian country like CHN to handle well its market economy? Besides the prediction from The Economist is that the economic growth of CHN will be slow down in years(Alas, this is quite an old story, isn't it?), there are social grievances, unrest in regional land selling, failure of the macroeconomic policy, prevalent corruption, the tension in Taiwan strait, financial bad debt,the conflict between the officials in poliburo, and the seigneurs from local govts, abnormal large foreign reserves...etc. Any of these can turn into mishandling and become a big bomb in the society.

What's the solution? Well, definitely this is a silly question. They prefer to deploy the rocket game with wasting huge resource and rapidly to upgrade its force capacity but nothing to do with political reform or even make any effort in law modernization and implementation. There is always a solution but nobody pick it up. There is a catch phrase from some educated Chinese: China is too big/difficult/over populated/any-recent-characteristics-of-China-you-can use-to-plug-in-here to govern in democratic way; it will be unrest once the democracy starts up, it is too early to start democracy because the majority of the people needs more education/because China is not ready/because China is big/any-recent-characteristics-of-China-you-can use-to-plug-in-here. It just doesn't make sense to me!

I just wonder, for how long this authoritarian regime will last? When will the Chinese people realize the nessasity of decentralizing the power?I am not smart enough to know, who can tell me?