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Old 30th Apr 2020, 06:51
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Originally Posted by dr dre
China has bought several hundred million out of poverty into the middle class in the last few decades. Tens of millions of Chinese now travel overseas each year (and don’t try to claim asylum despite portraits of the country being an authoritarian gulag).

The Chinese see Western democracies suffering a decline in their middle classes, a decline in wealth, an increase in debt, a rise in populism and a decrease of stability. Truth be told they probably don’t wish to move from their current system.
Yes, absolutely: To the victor, the spoils"

Parallels with the British Empire of a century ago. So another 100 years, a couple of world wars, and we are back to square one, less a significant block of earths population.

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