Soto: We are not trying to impose values on china. The chinese people will either demand these rights or they will not. It is an absurd argument that democracy and the rule of law originated in, as it were, the mediterraneantha somehow, though not relevant to the rest of the world. Well, if that was true, you would not have most of asia applying the same rule of law and democratic systems,. Not identical, but comparable, to the west. And just think of china's own neighbours, japan, south karea, tiwan, indon sa, india. These are all not western countries, but they their peoples have chosen and