The Asianist

Earlier today, I blogged about Wrigley's and China and wrote:

Yes, you can make money in China and, yes, you can dominate the local market despite all the obstacles of conducting business in a byzantine "communist" quasi-capitalist dictatorship.

Note that I called China's political system what it is: a "communist" quasi-capitalist dictatorship.

But here is what the Left calls China's government -- an "inelastic political system":

China, to be sure, still has very many problems of its own, including an inelastic political system, a daunting rich-poor gap, the ever-volatile Taiwan issue, demoralizing corruption problems and those extremely unfortunate and counterproductive tensions with Japan.

Tom Plate writes occassionally interesting bits about Asia, but he is clear about his orientation as a China apologist. Only a Leftist would apologetically call a brutal dictatorship that executes political prisoners as having a merely "inelastic political system."