始吾於人也，聽其言而信其行。今吾於人也，聽其言而觀其行。

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063174

It certainly would be delightful to see a trove of internal documents from the current regime in China, with opportunity for the whole world to examine the inner workings of that regime. I daresay many current issues about effective development policy for third-world countries could be better understood if we all better understood what is going on in China behind the Great Firewall. That would surely be of benefit to the common people of China themselves. For that matter, we might better understand what is going on in Syria just now if we had full access to internal documents from the regime in China.