The great Chinese dissident compares the "China model", which promotes exports by exploiting cheap labour and lack of rights for the population, with the economies of the United States and Europe. Less profits for a few create greater wealth for all: the risk is that Chinese society will explode.
Image by art_es_anna via FlickrWashington – In the previous sections, we talked about the wrongs of the economic development strategy in China since the Deng Xiaoping era. The so called "let some people get rich first" economy which is oriented toward export, is really a strategy of exploiting workers cruelly while letting a few get extremely rich quickly, a strategy that shares the fruit of this exploitation with the Western big business in an effort to buy them out and thus encourage them to lobby the Western governments for the dictatorial government in China. This development model has been boasted as the "China Model" by the Western big businesses. However, this model did not really bring the economic take-off in China. Instead, it has come to a dead end. The poor people resulting from this sick model are becoming an obstacle or stumbling block to the economic and social development in China.
