China will become increasingly interesting as the billion people move from farms to city, living condition disparity increases between the educated and inustrialized vs rural immigrants to the cities, demands of the educated for power presses the government, and competition from other asian nations increases.

I predict a bloody-ass couple of decades of largely internal strife beginning about 5-15 years hence. If you look at the history of China they have occassionally entered into fratricidal dissolution, sometimes for long periods of time before a new power structure emerges. What is interesting this time is Maoist re-education tried to undermine Confuscism, which has been the glue binding Chinese for thousands of years.

The Chinese government will do like all countries do when the people are restive--blame it on external forces outside their control. Like we're doing in this thread.

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