Oct 27 2011: I'm don't think that's exactly what I meant. I mean that what volataire would have thought of man being free may be very different from a Chinese view of freedom. Where in the west freedom may be the ability to speak against the government, elsewhere it may be that freedom comes from equality or a 'freedom from suffering'.
Oct 24 2011: I think the main flaw in this question has to come from the view that China is not 'free'. Freedom is simply one persons perspective on a situation, and not a universal truth. The 'freedom' we have in the west may be of a very different nature to that in china. However who are we to say that it is better.
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