It's my conviction that the PRC collapses in civil war, during the next 15-25 years it will need to even begin to rival the US militarily, long before the PRC military is respectable.
Chinese civil war, interesting......Maybe Pepsi, KFC, Sony and Michael Jordan have done more to bring about a global awareness in China than we give them credit for......Get the masses hooked on pop culture, then threaten to pull the plug, watch the masses revolt.
I often thought that should be our policy in Cuba. Flood the place with western goods, letting the people see and taste that which they are deprived.