Just a question tho.
How do they survive when the west stop buying their shit cause it is bankrupt?
A more toned down, realistic view is that they are indeed progressing after copying for decades the ways of the westerner/ russian man especially in the economic domain, but they are extremely fragile; 3/4 of their population is living in the dark age still. Yes their salaries and quality of life is progressing in the cities, but what when the west goes bankrupt and dont buy their crap anymore? Also their productivity has grown at the expense of health , their whole country is polluted beyond repair.
Still I think they have something that will allow them to survive in the future; their ant like view of life/mankind. Occidentals, whites, westerners are disapearing because they became way too egocentrical after abandoning religion. But the few who will remain will probably mix with chinese/ japanese. Simply because white and asian are superior to every other races on earth.
How they will survive? Let me give you little something to think about: Few years back there was a little flood, which submerged most of the HDD industry of the china, so the price of the HDDs went sky high, and at the end they at least triple their price. What this means? While 95% of computer technology is made in china and asia, they have nice grip at ours windpipe, and if they shut down some factories, we will found us in the situation, where our systems collapse because of the lack of new parts. We are complete useless without the computers and the IT-field, so if they hit us there, we have some serious trouble.
On the other hand, you live in luxury in china with 5$ per day, and anyone who has been there knows this. You eat a three-course restaurant dinners by 1.5€ per day, drink yourself senseless with 2€ per day etc. and the worth of the money is complete different than in the USA for example. Price of the normal living is ridiculous in there, and most of the people reach that. There is 1.35 billion people, so if there is 200 million homeless, that is only drop in the ocean. And what is homeless in the country, where at least third of the people lives in the huts made at bamboo? We talk about china, where normal measurements doesn't count at all.