His theory apparently has been there can be no perestroika or economic reform without political openness.
We now understand that getting greater political openness and democracy in the Arab world is essential to our security.
But there has been no movement toward greater political openness.
But many Chinese believe that the country could tolerate a greater degree of political openness now.
Others want more political openness, but value their health and education services.
But the main issues he had raised about political openness were not addressed.
Adaptive management needs to at least maintain political openness, but usually aims to create it.
His entry into the law faculty in the early 1960s coincided with a period of relative political openness.
It is a Vietnamese writer - now in prison - who demands political openness.
Even before that, the political and intellectual openness he has helped bring to his country will wither.