The Chinese cannot tolerate a thriving democracy run by Chinese people directly across the water from them. Of course it should. I'm not saying China will start the next big war or take over the world. I am worried about the next five or 10 years. I don't think China knows what it wants.
China needs to know where it stands in the world.
It is not hard to see that communism as an ideology died many years ago. The Chinese people were the first to know this, but even the party leadership has caught on. Deng Xiaoping has said he does not care whether the cat is white or black so long as it catches mice. But the United States and the rest of the world seem intent on providing the cheese to help the Communists catch the mice on their terms. American policy-makers and analysts are constantly reminding us that China will soon have the largest economy in the world.