CAPITALISM != DEMOCRACY

No matter what conservatives say, there is no necessary linkage between the two:

China's economic rise hasn't brought moves toward democracy
By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Friday, November 11, 2011

There was a time when analysts in Washington spoke hopefully that China's economic growth would lead to a broad expansion of civil liberties. Engage China's business interests, the thinking went, and the government's harsh ways would relax.

Decades later, that has not happened.