Wow!  Public toilets every kilometer in the cities, that may be the deal maker.  Mind you, it might be even more impressive if the Chinese government could provide air in their industrial cities that was not so polluted that people could actually breath and walk for a kilometer without masks and without having to stop frequently in fits of violent coughing.

And a strong case can be made that any country which can force thousands of septuagenerian men to sit through a 3 and a 1/2 speech by Dear Leader without using the toilet is truly a dictatorship.  

Most of us here rank democratic freedoms and institutions with a regular choice of leaders, parties and policies, a press able to openly access and report on government activities, freedom of speech and assembly, an independent judiciary and the rule of law, and an open economy subject to that rule of law above public toilets in our system of values.

But nice try.

P.S. What does "more freedom but strictly controlled" even mean?