Boris on why the walls aren't tumbling down

It is interesting to read the comments of Boris of the flag waving Boris Johnson in the Telegraph this morning.Recentlty returned from Beijing he writes that

Never in the millennia of the great city’s history has the Chinese capital been so open to foreign influence, for good or ill, and never has there been so dizzying a rate of change. On my supposedly censored hotel television, I had watched, the previous evening, an excellent BBC documentary about the massacre in this same Tiananmen Square

and whilst admitting that things are changing he places a barrier

The bourgeoisie of China shows plenty of interest in money, but not much in multi-party democracy and the joys of a free press. And there are cities in China with many millions of people, whose names you would barely recognise, where you would certainly not see Western joggers in the morning.
China is changing, but in some ways there are still walls against the influence of the West, ancient walls that seem to stretch on forever.