The Chinese Century Is Much Faster

After watching the ingenuity the Chinese displayed when constructing the railway to Tibet, the genius behind the new harbour bridge (which actually cuts accross the 40 mile river mouth and bay), and how overcoming obstacles and challenges just about became routine exercises over the past few years, I am more than just convinced that China is the 'new America'.

The impossible is done everyday, outright miracles require state approval but aren't much of an issue either, and Chinese engineering genius seems to know no boundaries - or at least won't accept any when they reach them.

The whole mind-set reminds me very much of the people who made America great in the past century, but with one major difference. When America started out, it was sparsely populated, new tools, techniques and technologies were only beginning to be invented, and it did take Americans almost 150 years to get their country to it's pinnacle.

China has 1,200,000,000 inhabitants, technologies are already available, and whatever is implemented in China today, is the bleeding edge best humanity has to offer at this stage. In other words, China doen't haven't invent in the wheel, they can buy the tyre manufacting plant, including all know how and then start improving on it right from the start.

In my opinion it will take the Chinese less than two decades to reach the level Americans worked 150 years to reach, and 50 years to maintain, and about two decades to squander.

That is why China will not be a military threat to anyone for the forseeable future. They'll just leave everyone else in their dust as they gradually take over the leadership mantle in all areas.

Of course, there is a socio-economic problem that will become a serious issue in a decade or so. There are almost 200,000,000 more males than females in the Middle Kingdom, and with Chinese don't particularly like Indian or Indonesian females.
It is the staggering numbers involved whenever dealing with China, that make her unique, and which also make it of paramount importance that China does not become democratic anytime soon.

The political system of many Asian countries - the successful ones - is completely different, as are the political mindsets of Asians, from European/American ones. Westerners tend to either trust their governments or be cynical about them and their unending attempts to regulate and nanny everyone. Asians distrust the government and ignore it as much as they can. Asian governments, well aware of that, are quite comfortable with this arrangement, and by and large leave the governed alone, as long as they are not being opposed.

In other words, the entrepreneurial drive in Asia creates de facto free markets which frequently ignore government regulations, and which are being tolerated by the respective government as long as they create growth and don't cause social upheaval. Asian governments only begin to interfere with their respective middle class(es) when the economy either matures, or when the upwardly mobile become too powerful and/or begin to demand political clout.

This then means that China might succeed where the West failed so miserably, leading humanity into space, colonizing Mars, industrializing Earth's orbit and probably the Moon, in the process. As long as the can-do, go-get mentality prevails, let's give the Chinese a hand and support them all the way.

Think about it.