What do you want to say about China? I thought before I went that the decision would be quite straightforward. I wanted to comment on pollution, human rights abuses, Tibet, the economic boom and history. But on returning and beginning to paint out theses issues it became apparent that it's all too easy to make prissy didactic statements. One of the most interesting things about China is my sense as a westerner of the regime and what it might be capable of.

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