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What's Wrong with China? What is the future of China and-or What is currently wrong with China. Good questions. A couple simplistic observations for a couple very complex questions. China's future is linked to the future of world for good or ill. The future for all of us on this planet will look very different from the past. With technology that is manipulating the fundamental building blocks of life, with an intricate lightspeed electronic web connecting every country in the world and significant percentage the people, with 3/4 of scientists who have ever lived alive today, and with change and novelty accelerating exponentially so that the last 20 years of "progress" will take in just the next 5 years...Whatever it looks like.. it will look very different from where we have come from.. hopefully we can develop the understanding and ethics to handle it. The current what's wrong in china.. of course there are all problems you can read about.. the poverty in the west, the lack of ethics resulting in producing products that harm people, the pollution of air and water, the population issue.. But it boils down to having a significant enough number of people here care about China in a tangible way. Care so that people dont drop trash on the street. Care so that companies don't drop their industrial chemicals in the rivers. The tangible list goes on and on. Historically it may have something to do with fact the the current older generation when through tremendous cultural trauma a few decades ago.. that resulted a good part of the intelligence being suppressed. I think this trauma now shows up in different ways in the way people care about this country and their neighbors. Just a couple thoughts. |