I also hope the country is maturing politically. I see a chance that China may someday evolve out of a totalitarian dictatorship on its own. Maybe I'm being naive.

...Jiang has tried to emulate Deng, whose theories on economic reform were added to the party constitution in 1997, by having his own signature theory -- the "Three Represents" -- written into the charter this time round.



The theory says the party represents advanced productive forces, advanced culture and the vast majority of the people.

It is a blueprint for broadening the party's membership to private entrepreneurs, once excluded as "capitalist exploiters," in a bid to make it more relevant to modern China.



Sounds like progress. Of course making business owners into part of the ruling class of a totalitarian system is kind of missing the whole point of capitalism, but we'll see.