But is China really evolving at its own pace?  We in the West allow the elite of the oligarchs to siphon trillions out of China (and other rights abusers) to be parked into residential and commercial real estate.  We are the piggy bank and the escape pod and just as this money distorts our housing markets the lack of it in China prevents the development of such collectivist notions as pensions and universal health care.  The evolution of China might have looked quite different if we had insisted that the goods we imported were manufactured with at least minimal health, safety and environmental basics respected.  Our greed for cheap, unnecessary junk just might have stopped "evolution" in both countries.