We all have hope. From my son doing well on his SAT to my friend recovering his health, we have our own wishes and prayers that help us navigate life. But there is a deeper, more serious and universal hope that unites all good men and women in times of repression. It's the hope, that one day the evil will end.

Now that evil has been many different things over the centuries. Slavery, Communists, Nazis and a seemingly never ending parade of hideous tyrants all make the list. Few generations are blessed with no evil to fear.

Yet, the hope against all these evils has always been the same. It is the hope of survivors of death camps and prisoners of war. It is the hope of a family waiting for a loved one to return from war or political prison. It is the hope of that drives the escape or resistance to all forms of cruelty and repression. It is the hope of those who resist the Chinese Communist Party.

I am not certain we are done with the losses that can still be inflicted by the Chinese Communist Party. Yet, without a doubt the evil that is the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) is starting to give way to the logic of the market and the universal value all men and women place on individual freedom and human dignity.

The benefits of open markets and economic vitality that were, in all fairness, well managed by previous CCP leaders from Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao have been reversed under Xi Jinping. Where Deng pried the iron fists of the CCP off the economy and Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao allowed Chinese citizens to visit the world, Xi is now building concentration camps and harnessing technology to control every aspect of life in China.

Wealth may not equal happiness nor does prosperity equate to purpose. Yet the pursuit of both does not automatically mean the repression of others, even in undemocratic societies. Before the arrival of Xi, the world, aware of the power and potential of 1.4 billion people, had believed in a gradual opening of China to a point where the evil associated with communism would give way to the freedoms that accompany open markets.

I do not subscribe to the current belief that the premise by which free markets create free people has failed in China. Quite the opposite, what Deng planted Xi cannot plow under. For the benefits of the market, the dignity of the individual are the very basis of hope.

It is wrong to conclude 'hope' is lost in China, and for that matter in Asia. The response to Xi donning the black hat, as he cracks down on Chinese civil society and becomes more aggressive in Asia, has not been to shrink from confrontation with Xi and his CCP henchmen. Rather Xi has created dissent and resolve in nearly every corner of China and Asia.

That's the thing about the hope, the harder evil presses, the stronger the hope grows.

For a short while Xi and the CCP managed to give freedom a rest. But as the good days and opening of society under past CCP leaders gave way to repression, as Xi's discipline and order became a return to darker days, as always happens when evil returns, so too hope emerges.

Hope will keep growing in China as Xi continues his repression. 800,000 Muslims are not locked up in western China because they have abandoned their religion. The CCP's jails are not filled with political prisoners because these activists have given up. Japan and Vietnam are not restocking their militaries because they intend to fall in line with the wishes of the CCP.

Xi is not going anywhere tomorrow. I fully expect him to finish his second term. But what has happened, whether in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people, or in the halls of power in other nations, is the illusion the Communists need for their governing mandate has eroded. The world sees the Chinese Communist Party for what it is. Not an enabler of better lives, as could credibly be argued in the past, but as repressive regime. An evil regime.

Hope grows.