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The Chinese elite are showing plenty of self-interest. They have an entire infrastructure of purified air to breathe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/world/asia/the-privileges-...

That's an amazing display of hypocrisy by government leaders who usually keep right control over PR. I'd be unsurprised yet impressed to learn that the company that makes air purifiers for the ruling class, and then publicly advertises that, was a CIA operation to foment a rebellion against the tyrannical government.

I see it as completely unsurprising, and would be equally unsurprised to hear of this in a capitalist country.

Is organic non-growth-hormone corn-syrup-free food that is too expensive for the poor a socialist plot?

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