The focus of this paper is democracy in China. The democratization of Communist China is neither likely nor feasible. Not in the foreseeable future. It was a brilliant and promising move when former President Richard Nixon first established ties with Communist China in 1972 as "one dictatorial power playing over another dictatorial power" (Boycott China 2002) as a face-saving act during the Vietnam War fiasco and at a time that Russia was on the offensive. During the Reagan administration, China began evolving into a freer and more open society, hinting at an evolving democracy. The American people had hoped to help build that democratic society and thought it would happen then. Today, President Bush's government wants to establish a free trade agreement with China so that it will be more dependent on us and become freer, more prosperous and more peaceful.
