@yogthos @lagunacafe doing a fuckton of reading aside..

At one level it's right that China is gaining this prominence. That's for sure. And this is hardly likely this would happen with most people under abject poverty at the same time.

USSR was, and China is on it's way to something that isn't at least 40% authoritarian state and 45% (authoritarian?) employer top down governance, really?

Of course not, that'd require change incompatible with it's current ruling elites..