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I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.

Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.