GIFFORD: Paul French of Shanghai consulting firm Access Asia has lived in China for nearly 20 years.
Mr. FRENCH: The government should take the lead on that, and an independent legal system needs to be able to do that and to respect the rights of entrepreneurs and innovators. And at the moment, that is simply not the case, here.
GIFFORD: French says intellectual property right is one of many issues that need to be dealt with if China is going to move up to the next level.
Mr. FRENCH: The big picture would be the environment. The big picture would be social welfare - health care and pensions, particularly. But then it would be education and the ability for students and academics to challenge the consensus, to challenge the official version of things. We need to have freedom of the press so that confidence in the stock market can be maintained. Were going to need better ethical and corporate governance, and thats going to mean a lot more transparency, both from government and from corporations.
GIFFORD: Any one of those issues on its own would be hard enough to reform. The fact that China needs to reform all of them is a monumental - not to mention dangerous - task. Modern Chinese society is simply becoming too complex to be contained within the old political and social framework.
And its not just Westerners who say that some of the entrenched cultural and political attitudes have to change. Take education, for instance.
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