The answer is that political
freedom is a choice of all or nothing.
Some people say, let's take a
slower but safer approach. Let's
first
set up a "Political Special
District"-- PSD. Maybe the best
place would be Shanghai Pudong
New District. Why? Because,
it is Pudong, a newly developed
area. It is semi-detached to
the Shanghai Municipal
government. It has a good size of
educated population. So let's
set up on PSD there. Let's give
them freedom of setting up
parties, free press, free election.
Give them 1 year to achieve
that and see how it fare out.
But here is the rub. Free press? Can the local newspaper
freely discuss national or
international issue? If yes, how
do you keep the news from
getting leaked to the rest of the
country? Or Just other side of
the Huang Pu river? Can newspaper
have website? Then the central
governement need to block the
websites... Free election? If
it is indeed a "free society" that
we are heading for, then there
will will be a lot of freedom
granted to the people inside
the PSD. Then we are literally
creating a " State within
State"...Tolerable? If it is indeed
tolerated, will there be
massive migration from outside PSD to inside?