The Chinese way of economics

[HoreTore]

It's clearly an idea you subscribe too or you would not have posted the OP in the first place, "letting it develop naturally" as you quoted/paraphrased from the article is one of these ideas people have about China, somehow if we buy widgets from them they will be nice to there own and us.

No, you missed the point entirely.

This is about economic development, and the economies in question are Burma and Chinas other southern neighbors, which in turn will indirectly improve China's own economy.

Political change has nothing to do with this.

In fact, it has little to do with China either, as its about a universal economic idea that can be applied anywhere, and which is applied in several places besides here, most notably in the EU.