Aging Process

Wuhan, China

The main reason that the world’s elites allowed China to become the workshop of the world is because we have an incumbent global elite that, because of the lingering trauma of the two World Wars, is way more scared of military aggression than economic skulduggery. They figure you can fix economic problems in the mix, while military invasions and global warfare and its consequences aren’t so easy to fix.

So they countenanced and oversaw the transmission of a lot of manufacturing to China, because they gambled that an increasingly prosperous domestic Chinese population would magically create political inertia that would inevitably result in them rebelling against their “Communist” rulers, and converting China into a liberal democracy (generic terms). And that was the end game — Making sure that China’s growing military power was commanded by liberal democrats (again, generic terms) instead of aggressive pseudo-communists.