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It's fashionable nowadays to portray China as the next superpower. However, serious students of foreign policy and futurism have a few doubts.
1- China has no history of democracy or respect for the rights of the individual at all. Now, the reality is that to date, no modern society has ever been able to enter the ranks of first class modern nations without these characteristics. In fact, the deep seated authoritarianism of Chinese society is a prophylactic against democracy and individuality. Instead, China remains a police state.
2- No modern culture during the last 500 years has been able to establish and maintain superpower status without first being an intellectual superpower. China, like all mongoloid cultures in modern times, has a great deficit in true creativity. Worse, this deficit is based on the heavily ingrown traditions of authoritarianism, paternalism and group think as opposed to individual think. To date, modern China is an abject failure in this regard. A simple walk in any Chinese city will reveal stolen western intellectual product, but virtually nothing original which is home grown.
3- China has a military history of defensiveness and failure. The reality of Chinese military history is that against non- Chinese, they have almost always been the losers. Indeed, the famous Sun Tzu texts were written during one of hate many many periods of Chinese civil war.
4- Internal strife has been the bane of China for millenia. China traditionally splits into many parts which, for protracted periods war with each other. This could easily happen again.
5- Corruption has been and continues to be the bane of China. Chinese friends tell me that already, it is almost impossible to tell who really owns anything in China. Apparently, the Chinese government is worried in that estimates are already that 1.5% per year of China's GDP growth is corruption related.
6- Fear and hatred of Chinese cultural imperialism and economic domination are deep seated and wide spread in Asia. This will act as a natural hedge to excessive Chinese influence.
7- Last but by no means least, it should never be forgotten that China is outrageously overpopulated. This has already caused incredible pollution and via culture based infanticide to produce males, a ration of 1.2 males to females in the sub 15 age group in China.
1- China has no history of democracy or respect for the rights of the individual at all. Now, the reality is that to date, no modern society has ever been able to enter the ranks of first class modern nations without these characteristics. In fact, the deep seated authoritarianism of Chinese society is a prophylactic against democracy and individuality. Instead, China remains a police state.
2- No modern culture during the last 500 years has been able to establish and maintain superpower status without first being an intellectual superpower. China, like all mongoloid cultures in modern times, has a great deficit in true creativity. Worse, this deficit is based on the heavily ingrown traditions of authoritarianism, paternalism and group think as opposed to individual think. To date, modern China is an abject failure in this regard. A simple walk in any Chinese city will reveal stolen western intellectual product, but virtually nothing original which is home grown.
3- China has a military history of defensiveness and failure. The reality of Chinese military history is that against non- Chinese, they have almost always been the losers. Indeed, the famous Sun Tzu texts were written during one of hate many many periods of Chinese civil war.
4- Internal strife has been the bane of China for millenia. China traditionally splits into many parts which, for protracted periods war with each other. This could easily happen again.
5- Corruption has been and continues to be the bane of China. Chinese friends tell me that already, it is almost impossible to tell who really owns anything in China. Apparently, the Chinese government is worried in that estimates are already that 1.5% per year of China's GDP growth is corruption related.
6- Fear and hatred of Chinese cultural imperialism and economic domination are deep seated and wide spread in Asia. This will act as a natural hedge to excessive Chinese influence.
7- Last but by no means least, it should never be forgotten that China is outrageously overpopulated. This has already caused incredible pollution and via culture based infanticide to produce males, a ration of 1.2 males to females in the sub 15 age group in China.