One of Steyn's last comments seemed to elicit little notice.
"China won't advance to the First World with its present borders intact."
I'm not really sure what Steyn meant by this.
An American Expat in Southeast Asia
He seems to be confident that their edifice will split apart. I am not so sanguine about that. They clearly are intent on more expansion...and have the military to back it up. Their eyes are on Taiwan, the Phillipines, Thailand, Cambodia, the Straits of Malaaca, etc. They have even made noises about Australia...commenting how underpopulated, and resource-rich, their former "discovery" still is.
Anyways, if Tibet and the Muslim provinces can't break away, and they steadily ratchet up the screws on Hong Kong, I guess I would not count on their kindly self-destructing implosively. That is not to say there aren't tensions, and potentials for revolution we can and should be exploiting. We should. But we sure aren't right now.