Home Is Where The Heart Dwells

Right now several versions of China stories are circulating, and no one seems to know which one is true. A recent blogpost comments on these stories. (See full text. )

“Talk to businessmen, investment bankers, and economists, and you get a totally different perspective than if you talk to political scientists, historians and international relations experts. The former tend to stoke the common public perception that China is an unstoppable juggernaut that will dominate the world by 2030, give or take a year or two. The latter point to its fragility, unworkable internal power structures and a social pressure cooker about to blow its lid. Some forecast that the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party rule will not survive the fifth generation of CCP leadership, which begins in 2012.”