I hope you're right, but personally I don't buy the argument that just because some people see the practical/economical value of freedom, that it will inevitably flourish. Instead, I believe that moral arguments trump practical ones, and so without someone championing individualism and egoism, any economic freedom may be fleeting. And I don't (yet) see any public figures making those types of moral arguments in China or elsewhere.

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Posted by Amit Ghate to Thrutch at 9/28/2005 12:31:58 PM