While I agree with the idea that democracy will not work properly on an uneducated population, I think that's no longer true in China, and instead of relaxing it's controls, China's increasing them.<p>I think perhaps the arrogance is from the Chinese side in not wanting to be told what to do, and not from the rest of the developed world. If they really do not want to learn and borrow from the developed world, they should stop pirating western films and music and stop stealing western technological advancements as well as rejecting developed political advancements like freedom of information that conveniently happens to weaken the grip of the CCP.<p>They clearly admit they are developing, then what other reason would they have to reject the advice of <i>developed</i> nations except to push away the specific advancements that  could potentially disturb the balance of power.<p>The Chinese is stance is highly arrogant and hypocritical.