the pics kinda got me to thinking about how there are parts of the US that are little better than 3rd-world sh*tholes
In addition to that, isn't it nice to see nurses who take some pride in their appearance?
In fact, those nurses are so attractive that it makes me wonder whether the pictures were staged - they look like they just walked off the set of a 1950's movie or television show in America.
Anyway, the more I see of China, the more I wonder if our future doesn't lie more with them than with any other peoples.
The nurses in China really dress like that. Pride in presentation for EVERYONE. Even the street-sweepers dress cleanly.
Our future does have a strong inter-dependency with China; it’s best if we recognize that now and manage the relationship with our own interests firmly in place. China will be the predominant economic and political force in Asia; ignoring that fact will make the future harder for both countries.
China is rational, the Chinese are - if anything - pragmatic. Russia is completely irrational and the biggest threat we’re going to face over the next few decades. China - with a huge population, economy, and massive border with Russia - will be a natural ally to stabilize and control Russia as it starts to go through wild death throes back into either a complete dictatorship or fracture into hundreds of independent states.
My concern is that in fifty years China will be, as it is now, a somewhat functional dictatorship simultaneously capable of producing great wealth and keeping its people in subjugation, that China will militarily be much more powerful than it is now, and that the Chinese people and leaders will hate us with an intensity that we cannot even imagine.