The underclasses in China are prolly the same % as the US as more and more of the middle class fall through the net into poverty.
Rural China is like West Virginia, and like in the US habeas corpus and due process do not exist. People at dinner parties dare not express a political opinion.
I hear social events there are now as bland as your average jdub social.
BAND - have you been asleep for 14 years? The bill of rights no longer exists. Freedoms you think you have, are now GONE since George Dubya. America is almost a police state run by cartels and monopolies. They claim unconstitutional income tax, and the bankers decide who controls things.
HB