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Originally Posted by haku
China will never become a western democracy and no one can change that, neither boycotting them or dealing with them will make China change, China will just follow its own course of development with little influence from other civilizations, like it has done for the past 5000 years.
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No infuence from other civilizations? How about communism? That sure was a HUGE influence that completely changed their way of life. It certainly wasn't present in China thousands of years ago. Moreover they accepted western behaviour patterns and culture characteristics like christmas being celebrated, consumer society, acceptance of free economy and trade... so I'd say there's A LOT they've taken from other cultures, mostly western ones.
And I'd say that the sheer size of them won't make them a super-power yet. It's their downfall more then it is a strenght. No one wants starving population - and that's what they'll have at the current birth rate. 500 million healthy happy people are better then 1 billion starving ones. And the Chinese goverment knows that - that's why they have birth regulation policies that would decrese number of births in the country.
I'm sorry to say but China's bein HUGELY exploited by the western superpowers for cheap labour. And they're happy for even getting SOMETHING. It's better then working on the rice fields or factories where they'd get almost no money and be bread-line poor. Foreign factories give them real wages which are larger then they'd ever get from a Chinese employer, but they're still being used, since they'd get at least 10 times more in the west for same jobs. It's unfair but that's how the world works. 70% of all the riches on the planet come from EU +US & Canada. Which means there are billions who live literaly on very little. China being one of those, sadly. So tt doesn't seem like they'll be taking over the world anytime soon.