[PaulHoule]

See

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/china

China gets a score of 14/100 as opposed to Taiwan

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/taiwan

which gets 93/100.

In my mind we should "Look for the Freedom label" and use this as a somewhat objective measure if we want to have free trade with free people.

[Leary]

Freedom house is a US government funded agency that gives better press to countries allied to the US. A better index is the Democracy Index by the Economist [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index