china current issues capitalism 2001, joins WTO, tends to lead to wealth, but no guarantees on distribution 2003, to have and have not economy -> political change decrease in party control increase in media coverage traditions and image foreign policy video foreign companies have introduced very high paid workers that soar above white collar workers, called gold collar in rural china, infrastructure funded by peasants rice growing is main business, but not that profitable in the town he was born in, his house is old and run down rural peasants not covered by health policies prohibited from leaving farms, but do anyway for city jobs migrants can be deported at any time and are not provided schools or hospitals private migrant schools are pretty run down tons of migrants sex industry growing as one of few jobs for women in the city police officer was telling them to shut off camera, gov't tends to cover it up rather than fix it children of migrants still don't belong