In Hao Yi-sheng's view there are two reasons why mainland China has gone the way it has. The first is the influence of autocracy, for with no factions within the Party and no opposition parties outside it the authorities have drifted inexorably into extremism. North Korea and Vietnam are examples of a similar case.
郝一生指出，中國大陸所以弄成這個樣子，其根源完全在共產黨的兩個問題：一是獨裁，黨內沒有派，黨外沒有黨，如此一來，必使政權走向極端，像北韓、越南等，都是同樣型式的例子。