Feel good about democracy in China ?

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The hacks accompanying Gordon Brown to China felt intimidated by its one-party state security system. Quite right too. But I have a feeling that China is on the move on this front as well, driven by environmental necessity as tracked by the grown up daughter of openDemocracy ChinaDialogue. Take a read of this heart-warming story of what can be done. Popular protest over the absurd third Heathrow runway may be ground down in our Kingdom but in Xiamen, as Li Datong reports in oD, the people put their foot down, turned their text message functions on - and won.