A reminder to those wishing we were like China

MANY in our country, and many all over the world fed up with their countries’ economic laggardness, are wishing we were like China. This wish seems to be gaining strength now that hopes for change in our society have grown with the start of the Rody Duterte presidency 11 days from today.

China is ruled and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. But the wish to be like China in most minds does not include the thought of being under Communist rule. The Filipinos just envy China for its being wealthier and more well-organized than the Philippines—and its people being less mired in dirt-poor poverty.