“The fundamental question that the Chinese government must ask itself is that of lawlessness. China is not lacking in laws, but in the rule of law … The issue of lawlessness could be the greatest challenge facing the new leaders who will be installed this fall … In fact, China’s stability may depend on its ability to introduce the rule of law into a system that does not know it.”
– Ferguson, Niall, The Decline of the West, Berlin 2013, p. 93.