"We are ideology-free. What would make the place work, let's do it."
but who are 'WE'? And who have a say in 'You are one of US, not one of them in U.S. or one of them for the Taiwanese'?
ideology-free can not mean no reforms on the political/social/cultural ill constructs until China caught up with other developed countries economic woes or military might with equal destroyer's capability to send earth back to its stone age.