Returning to the four questions posed at the beginning of this essay: 1) The economy looks likely to stay on a high growth path, albeit slowing as China’s demography changes and its economy’s performance converges on that of the world leaders. It is not immune to serious disruption. 2) Seymour Martin Lipset’s hypothesis that development leads to freedoms is better support than any current rival explanation. 3) By 2015, there is a good chance that China will have made its way into Freedom House’s middling or Partly Free group, with a ranking as Free following by 2025. 4) Although the period of transition to free government could hold dangers, a democratic China will be a China that is less likely to fight with its democratic neighbors.