The government takes away the issue of politics and some freedoms of speech for the Chinese people. This obviously is seen as bad for the people since they are more limited in what they can say and do. However, limiting what the people can say and do forces them to focus on other things that are more important such as making money to live, taking care of the family, and having fun.
MOST PEOPLE in China distrust the government and know that it's just government propoganda that they see and hear from them. However, people would rather focus on living their life, having fun, and earning money rather than going to jail and such. You have to admit that the Chinese government has created many opportunities for hundreds of millions of people so far. The government policies are improving the lives of people, modernizing the country, and lifting people from poverty at the cost of some non-essential freedoms (speech , limited religion) and accepting the 1 party line. Needless to say, there is still a lot of Chinese in poverty, but the Chinese government is has recently been creating policies to spread the wealth to the countryside and rural areas of China. China is trying to slow down it's economic pace to about 8.5% in order to focus on improving social stability (by spreading wealth) and ecological protection.
In America, the people are taught to value the freedoms that the Chinese do not have. But, what really made America into the current superpower of the world? Was it from the freedoms, or the capitalist economy and business friendly policies that it used for most of its history?
Since America does not restrict it's people from politics, religion, and freedom of speech (generally speaking), topics such as abortion, separation of church and state, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, democrats vs republicans, and other issues have taken center stage and being brought more attention and time than improving education, reducing poverty, and improving quality of life.
Ask yourself, if China had all the freedoms that Americans have, would people really have a better quality of life than they do currently? Would it have been one of the worlds most powerful nations? Would it have had the huge business investments, economic, and political prowess? Would it have had the miraculous economic growth? Would people be bickering over politics and religion as they do in America? Would a democracy really work well in a country with ~1.3 billion people with potientially 1.3 billion different opinions?
When comparing India to China (a huge population under democracy vs a huge population under "communisim"), it seems to show that while democracy preserves freedoms, the pace of change and progress in a society of that size is agonizing slow due to politics. People keep saying that in the next few years India will experience a huge boom, but people have been saying that for decades. China, on the otherhand, loses freedoms, but has an economic boom like none before.
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