Tell it to the Tank Man.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man</a><p>This is a Godwin's Law-type situation.  Economic growth and improving standards of living are all very well, but at root China still maintains a brutal and repressive apparatus for controlling its population.<p>Using that fact to make a point about copyright seems shallow, even if it is an intellectually interesting argument.