A lesson learnt in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/international/asia/24orphans.html?pagewanted=print&position=

... each person interviewed said his or her illusions about North Korea had been shattered.... said one person who had been in China only a few weeks. "They spend all their time celebrating the leaders. There is one thing I have understood in China, and that is, as long as there is no freedom, we will never get richer."

The first corporate revolution - signandsight: "In fact the rulers in Beijing should relax. Mobile telephones and the Internet are not revolutionary per se, but only when they are in the hands of fearless people who already have basic rights. And this is not the case in China."