They already promoted the Olympic Games at their soil, which could be seen as a movement to open the country to the world, but they have already given signs that they don´t have any intentions to become a democracy.
We are talking about China, the biggest economy of the world, bigger than USA since 2009 crisis, continues to run the country with human rights restrictions. As an example that development and democracy can work normally together.
In Brazil, we had our experience with a dictatorship that lasted more than 20 years (1964-1985).
Some citizens and politicians insist on denying that wasn´t a real dictatorship. They say that it was a Revolution, a way to protect the country from the communist threat, and we had a Constitution, so, it wasn´t a real dictatorship. China has a constitution, and, as the Brazilian Dictatorship, they have all the government controlled by the army.
Let´s be direct! Dictatorship is the most interesting thing for any economy, it allows the country to grow at high rates and attracts foreign investments, because of cheap workforce, no unions and flexible laws.
Off course, there´s a price: it won´t be allowed to criticize the economy or simply say anything against the policy that the country is trying to apply. This would be anti-patriotic, would say those who want to justify the price charged for an economy that grows fast and at high rates.
Let´s be honest, most of the benefits from the dictatorship in China, or any other country in the world with no respect to the law, are being enjoyed by the richest economy of the world and some developing countries, as Brazil.
You can´t believe in what you are reading? Ok! Open your cell-phone, look at where the battery is made. Look behind your computer screen, and verify where it is made. Look at your tennis shoes and observe where it is manufactured. I´m pretty sure that the country where they are made has a small probability not to be China, but a giant probability to be made in a country that is poor and doesn´t care about civil or human rights. In better words: a country that doesn´t care about the state of right. Or doesn´t care about law!
The best thing in a dictatorship is this flexibility with laws or simply the inexistence of them. This is the most attractive characteristic for big companies to achieve the goal of decreasing their costs and increasing profits. Therefore, they become more competitive.
By this logic, a few politicians and wealthy people from the country where a dictatorship is set up earns a lot of money, while the country is used by big companies all over the world. At least, this was the logic of the dictatorship in Latin America. But, it cannot be simply applied for China today.
China lives a new kind of dictatorship that really allows economic growth, technology transference, participation of public and private capital mixed in the economy… So, they have been very successful to achieve development, where other countries haven´t been successful with this kind of model.
The key of Chinese development is its ability to attract foreign investment and absolve all that they think it´s necessary to promote their own development, from technology to organization of companies. On the other hand, to attract investment, they have become more flexible with laws.
Beyond the Chinese economy, a lot of companies are very comfortable with the Chinese law flexibility, because of the amount of money they are making. Unfortunately, a big mass of people have been smashed by this development Chinese dragon, so that China could become a strong economy.
For sure, in Chinese Dictatorship model, as in Brazil, It’s not interesting to transform the country into a big democracy for the next years. Because the country is a big island capable of attracting a lot of investment and giving support to the economic growth, thanks for the inexistence of legal restrictions.
During the dictatorship in Brazil, the economy had the highest rates of economic growth in the world. This information is easily confirmed by any history book or Google. Also, it´s true that Brazilian economy was innovative, when it was successful combining the highest inequality rates with highest growth rate.
Sooner, despite all the human rights restrictions going harder, the Chinese nation will be opened for the world. When this moment arrives, the law will be no more flexible, and the Chinese economy will be no longer so interesting for the big companies. By this time, the Chinese Government will have to face the problems created by this lack of laws, as Brazilian Economy has to face until today the inequality problems created by its dictatorship growth model.
Hence, when this moment comes, Google will be allowed to show for Chinese people how their future is compromised by the dictatorship development model from the past. Probably, some citizens and politicians will say that it wasn´t a real dictatorship, because they had a constitution and they accepted free market rules, so, it wasn´t as bad as the history shows.
Mario Henrique R. Suzigan is a lawyer and economist, and has a law office set up in Campinas – SP, Brazil.
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