I would recommend they adopt the Chinese model for one reason: I believe the Chinese model is unsustainable, and will eventually result in the evolution of that country, into a state where individual liberties are expected and demanded by the next generation, and provided by a government with clearly no choice in the matter.
It will still be a long time coming, but I believe it is inevitable, so long as we continue to bombard them with examples of Western values, and the clear benefits of a truly open society.
Reagan won the cold war by pitting a free economy against a managed economy (and it looks as though that war might be fought again — Putin has apparently not learned that lesson) — that same strategy will work against China (modified to match differing details).
It looks as though it may work against Viet Nam. It will work against Cuba. It will work better, if we drop the trade embargoes (as we did with Viet Nam).
And, eventually, it will work against North Korea.
Ideally, each of these regimes will drop the repression, and find their way to freedom; but if they have to be kicked, dragging and spitting, by their own enlightened citizenry, so be it.
Once let in the door, economic, and individual freedom, will not be denied.
