A Stitch in Haste

China's Communist dictatorship is finding that its system for censoring movies is becoming unworkable:

A senior Chinese film official said Monday the country's censorship system will change as China opens up more and cultural exchange increases.

"Depending on the progress of opening up, as international exchanges increase in frequency, China's movie censorship system must change and adjust. That's indisputable," Zhang Pimin, deputy director-general at the State Administration of Radio, Film & TV's Film Bureau told reporters in Hong Kong.
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The mainland typically allows in only about two dozen foreign films a year, and the movies are often delayed by a lengthy censorship process.

Notice that there is no talk whatsoever of eliminating wholesale censorship of movies, only of "changing" it.

Remind me again how China's Communists believe in "free markets"?

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Look on the bright side: if China's several hundred million starving peasants can't go to the movies, then they can at least go see all the neat-o skyscrapers China is building in its oxymoronic "capitalism zones."

Assuming they can afford bus fare to get to Shanghai.

And forgetting the fact that these coastal zones are only open to politically connected elites.

And don't trip over the tens of millions of Chinese who have been forcibly relocated, with no compensation, to build these neat-o skyscrapers. (See also here.)

Sorry, but I'm not into modern architecture.