China's Future in the World

Chinese Communism is inauthentic. It uses Communism only when it allows the state to maintain its oppressive control of the people. It is done through the manipulation of the legal system, a perversion of the moral system, and the suppression of the information system. Economically, there exists a Capitalism far more corrupt and limitless that we find in the Western world. Businessmen are allowed to exploit their workers and consumers providing that they do not cause the government any inconvenience. China reacts aggressively to any peaceful demonstrations in Tibet and Taiwan, and yet it pales to the treatment of its own dissenters. In the end, it creates massive inequality between the rich and the poor, as well as the powerful from the powerless. 

It is a reoccurring historical theme that great inequality cannot be sustained in the long-term. The exploited always become progressively harder to oppress, and methods to control them will further spur protests if political and economic changes are not brought quickly enough. While we could look at the Arab Spring as a modern example, the American, French, and Russian Revolutions serve the same purpose. China has great economic potential that remains tragically underdeveloped because of its belief that an exploited workforce yields the most profit. They must shed this viewpoint, not only because it is immoral, but because it is unsustainable. If it wishes to become a superpower of American comparison, it must plan for the future. If China doesn't adapt its political and economic standards, its progress will stagnate once the people do so no longer.