As China is economy was growing at arate that promised to carry it to a level near or beyond that GDPpc benchmark by 2015 . I reasoned that this , the would is largest country , was a good bet to move into the partly Free category as well . since then , China has remained deep in Not Free territory even though its civil- liberties score has improved a bit – From an absolutely abysmal 7 to a still – sorry 6 on the 7-point FH scale- while its political – right score has remained stuck at the worst level