A new book about China set in 2013, mirroring George Orwell’s 1984, imagines a set of national strategies:
1. Democratic dictatorship under one-party rule;
2. Rule-of-law with stability as top priority;
3. An authoritarian government which rules for the people;
4. A state-controlled market economy;
5. Fair competition dominated by state-owned enterprises;
6. Scientific development with Chinese characteristics;
7. A self-centered harmonious foreign diplomacy;
8. A single-ethnicity sovereignty with multiple ethnicities;
9. Post-western and post-universal values;
10. Renaissance of the matchless Chinese culture
The sad reality, confirmed in media reports recently, is that China is now moving towards banning any SMS messages deemed “vulgar”.