My view is that the 21st century is going to be the century of Asia, of China.
You can’t be serious. China has NO history of freedom. Those people have been told what to do for 5,000 years. They are moving AWAY from what little freedom they granted. They are clamping down even harder on their people. And at a time when their economy is slowly but surely running out of legs. The demographic disaster awaiting China (fastest aging in world history) in the future ensures she will suffer a collapse of untold proportions and remain poor. Within 10 years it will begin to depopulate and within 30 years, 40% of it’s population will be over age 65 and will slowly sap away it’s vitality. Not to mention it’s wildly out of balance gender disproportion-too many males and not enough females.
Most of Asia is totalitarian and/or awesomely corrupt.
China just appointed their leader for life.
China looks good from out outside, but it is a dump.