We can say that if a country wishes to modernise, […] it must also adapt parliamentary democracy as its political system. Otherwise, this nation will not be able to have a market economy that is healthy and modern, nor can it become a modern society with a rule of law. Instead it will run into the situations that have occurred in so many developing countries, including China: commercialisation of power, rampant corruption, a society polarised between rich and poor.
Aus den Memoiren von Premierminister Zhao Ziyang, „Prisoner of the State“
