O. Business Community Changes (continued)

The "Four Principles" referred to on previous page are:

1. We must keep to the socialist road.
2. We must uphold the dictatorship of the proletariat.
3. We must uphold the leadership of the Communist Party.
4. We must uphold Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought.

Chou Minxian, a factory manager speaks for the workers:

People want better lives, a better education, and stability. That's what they want. So it's just a choice of words. In the West, they call it 'freedom' and 'democracy.' The way we interpret this is living and working in peace and happiness. This is the biggest wish of the common people. Before, we never imagined owning things like a color TV, a videotape recorder, and karaoke. Now every family has them. Some better-off families have central air conditioning. Private telephones are common.

Roger Sullivan, writing in Foreign Policy, feels that President Bush argues for a tougher sounding policy that says the United States should be on the side of change. In a speech at Yale University in May 1991, the President noted that "

No country has yet found a way to import the world's goods and services while stopping ideas at the border

Two key ideas guide the U.S. China policy: "First, that communist regimes cannot be fundamentally reformed or overthrown; and second, that the Chinese communist government was firmly in control and that it enjoyed the support of the Chinese people."