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The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

By next year, the Chinese internal security market is set to be worth $33-billion. Several of the larger Chinese players in the field have recently taken their stocks public on U.S. exchanges, hoping to cash in the fact that, in volatile times, security and defense stocks are seen as the safe bets. China Information Security Technology, for instance, is now listed on the NASDAQ and China Security and Surveillance is on the NYSE. A small clique of U.S. hedge funds has been floating these ventures, investing more than $150-million in the past two years. The returns have been striking. Between October 2006 and October 2007, China Security and Surveillance's stock went up 306 percent.

Ever since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, U.S. companies have been barred from selling police equipment and technology to China, since lawmakers feared it would be directed, once again, at peaceful demonstrators. That law has been completely disregarded in the lead up to the Olympics, when, in the name of safety for athletes and VIPs (including George W. Bush), no new toy has been denied the Chinese state.

中国有4亿14岁以下的儿童，这一数字比美国人口的总数还要庞大；而且根据中国玩具协会的预测，中国本土玩具市场的规模将由2001年的108亿元人民币，提升至2010年的924 亿元人民币。因此自从2006年12月，玩具“反”斗城在上海的第一家门店开业后，它就一直雄心勃勃地计划进行全国性扩张。

从2006年开始，德国的仙宝玩具王国、法国的狮子林玩具天地、英国的乐恩宝玩具店等都先后登陆了上海、深圳、北京等一线市场，而王尉东的爱尔玛玩具连锁除了在北京的世纪金源店和西单店，已通过加盟方式在北京、沈阳、山西、江苏、湖南等6个省市开出了10家分店。