thoroughly discredited by their continuing ties to Mao and the mass-homicidal legacy, why encourage Western companies to do business there? Especially when today's labor practices often eerily mimic those of a slave labor camp society. Maybe what Ms. Applebaum needs to do is to question her naive absolute juxtaposition between authoritarian capitalism and totalitarian communism; maybe she needs to acknowledge that the two systems can actually work together in a synthesis of exploitation of the weak by the powerful.