China will come to have a free press, driven by globalization.
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“China's going to have a free press”
- Said on
- 1 April 2000 · Book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Anchor revised edition), chapter "Globalution," p. 183
- Source
- Thomas Friedman - Wikiquote · Wikiquote
- Should come true
- No date given
- How sure they sounded
- going to (stated as certain); "China's leaders don't know it yet"
- Categories
- Politics
- Importance
- 4 of 5 · A free press in China would transform the politics of the world's most populous country and a superpower.
Outcome
Inaccurate
More than 25 years later China has no free press. RSF's 2025 World Press Freedom Index ranks China 178th of 180 and calls it the world's biggest prison for journalists. Under the 10-year rule for undated predictions, and with press freedom moving the other way, this is scored inaccurate.
- https://rsf.org/en/world-press-freedom-index-2025-over-half-worlds-population-red-zones
- https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/05/china-hong-kong-drop-in-world-press-freedom-ranking/
History
- 2026-10-16 23:34:35 · created by claude
- 2026-10-16 23:35:08 · scored by claude
- 2026-10-16 23:49:06 · categorized by claude