[kombuchakid]

Yes folks seriously, Frenchman Jean-Christophe Iseux, pontificates from Peking and even takes a potshot or two at India .

"India is an example of the mistake of having imposed a Western democratic system in a very large country"

riveting stuff and thankfully in the linkable Standard

http://babyurl.com/gscCT8

[DocBird]

" He sees plenty of changes in China. ``We are at the point of rule by law. You open a shop to do business until the policeman comes to the door. Once you have a legislation and legal framework, you can run to the court. It is no problem to go against the government.''


But a sentence later, Iseux admits that: ``In China you do not yet have a legal framework; you have a lot of little windows into the legal framework that does not exist.'' "


So that's clear, then