Applying a governmentally mandated ratings system across the very different media of movies, video games, and music recordings exacerbates the problem. . . . Such a rating system could not, in First Amendment parlance, be narrowly tailored. The Wen Ho Lee case has raised concern among Asian Americans about ethnic profiling in U.S. weapons laboratories and security agencies. Bowman cites a survey by Roper Starch Worldwide that found 85 percent of workers satisfied with their field of work and a Harris survey in which 69 percent of workers indicated that, if given a choice, they would take their current job again without hesitation. Perhaps most surprising was a Gallup finding that 70 percent of workers consider themselves fairly compensated.
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In the near future, China cannot escape some form of fundamental political reconstruction. This could very well come during the next one or two U.S. presidential terms, and this possibility has important implications for our own policy. America must avoid an uncritical eagerness to bring China to the center of the Asian international system. The basic problem for reform in China is that the Communist Party has no role in a free economy. A free economy requires government and laws, but legitimate and objective ones.