This photo essay should be disseminated around every corner of the western world – to remind people that how Maoist mentality had really destroyed so much of the precious resources of the planet – AND, with Mao’s huge portrait remain hanging on top of Beijing’s Tiananmen square, how reminding it is to us, that the current regime had NOT fundamentally changed deep underneath. The tremendous changes in appearance are far from being the “genetic” ones.
China is not actually heading American capitalism, it is emulating the pre-1987 Taiwan (before the KMT lifted the nearly 4 decades rule of the Marshall law, and Taiwan became a genuine democratic country after that) , and NOT America. It's called Neo-Mercantilism - political dictatorship, oppressed laborer mass, high potency exports to accumulate vast amount of "bullions"(today’s equivalence is the foreign reserve, which China has now got the biggest pile in the world) to flash the might of the state – perpetuating the grossly repressive system and build up more sophisticated armaments (including those that can be sold to countries like Iran) to bully anyone who disagree with the continuation of a regime that defy the true definition of legitimacy and accountability.
When the American people rebelled against the British Empire more than 200 years ago, it was fighting the then British mercantilism (Adam Smith’s theory that discrediting mercantilism was just published at that time and had yet much influence to the British ruling class at the time).
So make no mistake – today’s China, is a reincarnation of mercantilism (plus politically the undiminished Bolshevik tyranny) that we are dealing with – it is simply too far from facts to picture that China is moving towards the American way (or anything western way) down underneath the surface – until, perhaps, the day that Mao’s portrait is removed from the Tiananmen square.

Orwell - right you are. I have forwarded it to most of my contacts, suggest you do the same.

Thanks Ranger 99, I'd like to add a further comment here.
A fact sheet, a depiction in Jacques’ article about how the greatest famine in human history took place in the 1960s’ Great Leap Forward, should be widely quoted whenever there is an occasion in which China’s rulers is to be urged to take notice of the definition of accountability – as an honorable member state of this planet's.
The said depiction is –
“With another stroke, Mao perpetrated the "Kill the Four Pests" campaign, inducing the mass slaughter of millions of sparrows and a subsequent explosion in the locust population. The destruction of forests led to erosion and the spread of deserts, and the locust resurgence prompted a collapse of the nation's grain crop. The result was history's greatest famine, in which 30 to 50 million Chinese died.”
Such is the “greatness” in the Mao era.
And this author intends to supplement such depiction by the following -
The Bolshevik system (which started by promising a “classless society”) was already decades ago proven a fraud of the grandest scale in human history, but not until and during the last decade the highest form of its malice and unashamed-ness was formulated by the present China system. (see my one other comment posted to Jacques’ main article)
The communist party of China today surely has not lost that “greatness” started by Mao – with Mao’s huge portrait remain firmly towering Beijing’s Tiananmen gate.
Deng Xiaoping’s reforms of the early 80s was NOT an ideological about-face – it’s just a “business-strategic” kind of about-face – down underneath the Communist Party of China has not been transformed really much from its Bolshevik root, of being an ideology that warship the essence of its “greatness” – that (1) might is right, (2) brutal oppression is a heavenly (but, psss… camouflaged as a ‘proletarian’) mandate, and (3) wholesale deception is the road to glory.
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I have also posted one other (longer) comment to Jacques’ main article.
For those who are interested in the China issue as how it can be musingly related to the Enron type of corporate crimes, there is a blog page of mine: http://combatunjust.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_combatunjust_archive.html
(under Archive and not Current)