The next phase of China's development depends both on the continuation of urbanization and the growth of townships.
Peter Zeihan has a lot of idiotic opinions both on China and Russia.
Good news for China: if the US "re-industrialize" this way, its manufacturing sector probably will never really revitalize.
The guy has no idea what he was talking about. The blow to Vietnam dealt by China in 1979 was especially hash, because its younger, elite troops were deployed to Cambodia. As a result, older Vietnamese soldiers, who had married, many with kids, suffered disproportionately higher casualties during its conflict with China in 1979. It's Vietnam that needs to erase its shadow of 1979.