Due to the marketization reform, entry to the WTO and the “low human rights disadvantage,” China has become the second-largest economy. But contrary to what most had presumed and predicted, the market economy and rapid growth didn’t lead China to transform into an open society. Instead, argues Biao Teng, Grove Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College, the Chinese Communist Party has tightened its one-party rule and utilized its political-economic-technological power to establish an unprecedented high-tech totalitarian system, which has been the biggest threat to global human rights and democracy.