yes today , as I survey matters from a point slightly more than mid way between 1996 and 2015, I stand by my main conclusion : China will in the short term continue to warrant a Not Free classification , but by 2015 it should edge into the Partly Free category . Indeed , I will go further and predict that, should China is economy and the educational attainments of population continue to grow as they have in recent years, the more than one – sixth of the world is people who live in China will by 2025 be citizens of a country correctly classed as belonging to the Free nations of the earth.