Aren't we a ray of sunshine.
It won't happen like that. Individual chinese do not have the incentives to become highly skilled and highly ethical professionals. Hard working? yes. careful? not soon.
You will see that as if more chinese individuals becomes educated and therefore empowered the government will lose it's ability to be so heavy-handed. It may be a society as nuerotic, bureaucratic, and shame ridden as Japan or worse, but it will not roll us over.
Back int he late 70's, when Japan's rise to economic dominance was considered inevitable, a Chinese "Asiatic Studies" professor at my college put the situation in correct perspective when he stated in class, "Two or three nukes, whole damn island slide into sea."
With the Chinese, either the kleptocratic government will have to kill 100k (or more) unruly citizens a year to stay in power, or the burgeoning middle class will seek a better mode of societal regulation. The Long March to world supremacy for the modern Chinese state will not lead to a victory that is recognizable to the current ruling class.
Yes. And the Chinese are smart- as long as the gweilo are willing to provide them with a safe, level playing field, at the gweilo's expense in blood and treasure, why should they complain?
Like the Germans in 1909 should have reasoned- the British are spending millions to protect OUR commerce, we want to challenge them ...why again?
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