Nations and civilisation centres are often much like organisms or business organisations. They have start up phases, emergent phases, development phases, decline, and death. This stuff is often described and charted in great detail in MBA courses lol.
China or rather modern China is so poorly understood by strategists who have public platforms. Perhaps this is intentionally misleading but the quiet few understand that China today is in a similar position, in respect to global competitiveness and influence, to England just before the industrial revolution or the USA following up to WW2. It's potential and capabilities are overlooked and often underestimated still by most. This isn't to say China x years behind country A. That nonsense is honestly overly simplistic.
Many folks like to attribute innovation and creativity to some genetic quality. The racists especially fail to grasp the truth probably because of myopia. Old China died long ago and new China is currently emerging. The development phase is where most of your innovation comes and it will and must come. Innovation is not defined by genetics or even culture to a great extent. It is determined by economic circumstances. China has not reached its golden age, it's really only just begun development phase.
The period until 1980 is marked and defined by revolution, 1980 to 2010 was setting up the foundations of the emerging new China after the volatility and turmoil of revolution. Only about a decade into really "working" with a stabilised homeland, already the innovation and technology triumphs are flooding in. This is only a trickle compared to the flow that will be around in decades time while the fruits of the foundations become ripe for harvest. Already this trickle pioneered so many telecomm advancements, computing, fintech, all of which arguably represent the capability of what this new set of circumstances can offer even if all from the past are overlooked.
The ones handling the enemy's strategic policies probably understand all this too well and also know that China isn't yet arrived but will do in decades time and when it does, it will be in many ways the unipolar superpower that cannot be toppled quicky or easily much like the English were and the US post cold war. Of course there will be plenty of capable and near peer powers. Their work to disrupt this cycle and development pattern is clear and expected. Rather than presenting things fairly, different appraoches and methods are always going to be presented and accepted as immoral, inferior, unacceptable. Now it's more obvious why Chinese leaders took drastic measures to secure internal politics and social stability since the 1990s. Again, foundations take time to build and is often overlooked or ignored entirely.
China hasn't even really begun taking off yet and already it is a near peer adversary in many ways to the superpower. When China approaches the apex of its development phase, the science and technology in that world will resemble magic to us and the way society works may be very different for better or worse. Hopefully it all lifts humanity to another brighter age because dwelling in this evolutionary era of lower level reptilian brain is not the ultimate destination for humanity.
China or rather modern China is so poorly understood by strategists who have public platforms. Perhaps this is intentionally misleading but the quiet few understand that China today is in a similar position, in respect to global competitiveness and influence, to England just before the industrial revolution or the USA following up to WW2. It's potential and capabilities are overlooked and often underestimated still by most. This isn't to say China x years behind country A. That nonsense is honestly overly simplistic.
Many folks like to attribute innovation and creativity to some genetic quality. The racists especially fail to grasp the truth probably because of myopia. Old China died long ago and new China is currently emerging. The development phase is where most of your innovation comes and it will and must come. Innovation is not defined by genetics or even culture to a great extent. It is determined by economic circumstances. China has not reached its golden age, it's really only just begun development phase.
The period until 1980 is marked and defined by revolution, 1980 to 2010 was setting up the foundations of the emerging new China after the volatility and turmoil of revolution. Only about a decade into really "working" with a stabilised homeland, already the innovation and technology triumphs are flooding in. This is only a trickle compared to the flow that will be around in decades time while the fruits of the foundations become ripe for harvest. Already this trickle pioneered so many telecomm advancements, computing, fintech, all of which arguably represent the capability of what this new set of circumstances can offer even if all from the past are overlooked.
The ones handling the enemy's strategic policies probably understand all this too well and also know that China isn't yet arrived but will do in decades time and when it does, it will be in many ways the unipolar superpower that cannot be toppled quicky or easily much like the English were and the US post cold war. Of course there will be plenty of capable and near peer powers. Their work to disrupt this cycle and development pattern is clear and expected. Rather than presenting things fairly, different appraoches and methods are always going to be presented and accepted as immoral, inferior, unacceptable. Now it's more obvious why Chinese leaders took drastic measures to secure internal politics and social stability since the 1990s. Again, foundations take time to build and is often overlooked or ignored entirely.
China hasn't even really begun taking off yet and already it is a near peer adversary in many ways to the superpower. When China approaches the apex of its development phase, the science and technology in that world will resemble magic to us and the way society works may be very different for better or worse. Hopefully it all lifts humanity to another brighter age because dwelling in this evolutionary era of lower level reptilian brain is not the ultimate destination for humanity.
