A bit more background reading here:
This is an American article, but after five years in Beijing I recognise this landscape very well...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...88381481237582
and here is a nce article, very well researched, in Bloomberg, on the family of the next President of China:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...-of-elite.html
It is, literally, Orwellian...
"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer — except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.
" ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."...
