A social war is brewing in China

Yesterday the Chinese paper The People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper, ran a commentary piece that reaffirmed China's commitment to economic reforms.

The reason this is an issue is due to China's internal war between reformers and new leftists. Inside the Chinese bureaucracy a war is being waged between those who want to hold on to authoritarian rule and get rich, and those who want to hold on to authoritarian rule and be poor.

No matter who wins China is not going to change much. It will remain the belligerent wannabe hegemon that it currently is.