Reason one

What happens when a poor Chinese peasant sues the government?

Reasons may be millions but the result will be same.

The Chinese courts will reject his case.

He, his friends and associates will be harassed.

False cases will be slapped.

Eventually the poor peasant or the worker will be thrown in a notorious Chinese prison.

His friends and associates will suffer too.

But when an Indian peasant or a worker sues the government he might win the case and government will pay up.

There will be many who would not be able to even file a case in India but its far better than what exists under control freak communists in China.

The Indian legal system may be slow and inefficient but it exits and might improve in coming times.

Example:

On behalf of thousands of peasants from his native village, Ma Wenlin, a self-taught lawyer in northern China, sued the local government in 1997 to recover taxes that had been illegally assessed.

His chances didn't look too bad: Neighboring peasants had just won a similar case, a result that the Chinese press trumpeted as proof of the progress in the country's legal system

In Ma's case, though, the courts refused even to hear the suit. Many of his clients were harassed and imprisoned for their presumption. When Ma persisted, going as far as petitioning the highest authorities in Beijing, he was arrested, taken into custody, beaten, and convicted of "disrupting social order."

His sentence: five years hard labor.

Ma Wenlin's story, told in Wild Grass

: Three Stories of Change in Modern China

 by Ian Johnson, is first of all a specific human tragedy, both for him and for his overburdened clients, who scrape a mean living from the soil of the Loess Plateau, only to have their savings confiscated by corrupt, greedy and unaccountable officials.

But it also evokes a larger question: Are the impulses that animate the repression against the likes of Ma a comparative economic disadvantage for China?