no country or nation will previal, only the elites and they will make it more and more difficult for the common man to live within there current means by creeping up taxes, fines, prices on everything little by little to not make a huge shock or rebellion
Yeah I'm pretty much agreeing with him. People with money don't give a shit one way or the other, there the ones investing in china in the first place. China's true rise has far more to do with information becoming basically free more than anything else. As is industrialization in the rest of the world.
Africa won't be getting pillaged for to much longer atleast not in the current sense. Information tech is causing drastic change for the poorest people.
In the old days to compete you needed universities, mass transit, urbanization, energy supplies etc, to ever compete on a global level, today all you need is a 100 dollar computer and internet connection. Just think how much discussion goes on here about politics, even though it's semi banned, irrelevant to us, and not all that cool, not just imagine if this shit made your livelyhood and you'll see the difference.
The world is becoming flater, which means the middle class is getting wiped out, if your smart get the fuck out of places with a high cost of living, as shit is about to get unpretty.