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One thing I am certain about is that China's government right now is trying out various statutory measures (and borrowing fairly openly from civil code countries, especially France and Germany, as I understand it) to come up with a functional legal and legislative system.

Even the regional governments along the coast are taking inspiration from many more market-oriented nations to improve their systems, although there is still a massive problem with region-vs-region rent seeking behavior.

The Chinese gov't is not a monolithic bugbear. It's an institution that is trying very hard to reform itself so that its economy will continue to grow. It's an institution that also is politically interested in self-preservation. That will clash with its economic liberalization. But these are problems that all western governments have faced, and have survived, with different methods.

The last time China turned its back on the world was a loss for them and for the outside world both. I don't advocate unilateral concessions to reward inefficient government, but I don't subscribe to a unilateral opposition to them either, given their quiet but earnest attempts to modernize.