Thank you for your question.
I think his comments are very important in the way he expands the boundaries of freedom of expression. His comments definitely, obviously, resonate with average people. Do they resonate with the people inside of government? I think they do, to a certain degree.
I called friends who work inside government, and they all feel the need for China to move toward democracy. But we have to realize that there's a very strong inertia in the system. When the number one person in that system does not want to do that, you can do very little or nothing. I don't think there's an agenda by the Chinese government. If the government has an agenda, it would not be Wen Jiabao to say it but rather Hu Jintao. Wen Jiabao is the number three person in the system. So it would not be him.
I think there's a very strong inertia in the system that makes everybody sitting in one room, when they try to make a decision, choose the conservative policy instead of the liberal policy, because that is safe. They would not make the mistake of saying, oh, we have to have a heavy-handed policy, a heavy-handed measure against dissidents. Nobody would make the mistake of saying that. But the person who dared to say something like what Wen Jiabao commented would endanger his or her position in that hierarchy.
I think that resonates with many people inside the government, but it doesn't mean that change will take place tomorrow. It still takes citizens to provoke the democratic forces in civil society and force the government to split, force the party to split. The people with whom Premier Wen Jiabao resonated, when they're unified and have to remain public, will choose to work with the civil forces, the democratic forces. That will present the opportunity for real change in China.