It is something of an axiom of faith around upper middle class barbecues that if your kids learn to speak Mandarin, then they are part of the wave of the future of human progress. And yet this defies the fact that China's Cultural Revolution killed 40 million people. That China was the country that mandated a one child per family policy. How could this be a model for the future. It seems to me that a people who would suffer through that are only predestined to be productive workers because they have only just graduated from slavery.
What leads us to believe that a Chinese class of wealthy individuals would remain true to that ethic of insufferably hard work of the many millions below them?
For the record, I believe that China will have a Civil War before they make war anywhere else.
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