Nost: In my mind, it has always been a question as to how a centrally planned communist government will react when (somewhat) free market forces start exerting real pressure on their economy.
Add to that the inevitable backlash once these various businessmen, entrepeneurs, and financiers start demanding an equal voice in the running of the country.
In the background, you have a large and very disaffected peasantry, all of whom are watching their way of life becoming progressively more disenfranchised.
Throw in pollution, endemic AIDS in certain parts of the country, a growing and vocal cadre of former Chinese Army officers that don’t like the present government and are agitating for its ouster, no rule of law to protect intellectual property and a yawning gap when it comes to lawyers and upper management.
You now have a real interesting soup pot bubbling.
