For some economists, there is another lesson in the Chinese experience: national leaders should resist advice to free prices immediately.

The White House resists discussion of how decisions are reached, or what advice the President weighs in making them.

Recently he resisted advice to get a transplant.

He has resisted advice from close friends either to quit the Commons or join the frontbench.

To get the particular sound he wanted he resisted additional advice from his music teachers and books.

If he was a tyrant and resisted adverse advice, how could you have avoided disaster?

Diem strongly resisted American advice to include rivals in his government.

And wondered why I resisted good advice.

So they decided to resist the power of the state, advice from their doctors and pressure from their family.

Suicidal people are likely to resist such advice, so you may have to be persistent.