Obama is making the Americans work for China!

[gaelic cowboy]

I read a book lately which had a lot of rubbish in it on the future developments in Asia but the one thing I took from it was China is so big that dominating other countries would be a distraction.

The potential to cause major trouble in the rural regions as the urban ones get richer due to economic integration is a big worry in Beijing. Hence we keep reading in the Economist or see it on telly about how they keep trying to foster development in the interior to head off unrest.

I suspect it will fail no matter who you are the center will always draw your money and workers the best and brighest and the not so bright towards it.

It will take a while but I suspect that China will have to stop spending money on buying influence and instead spend it on it's own people in an attempt to shut them up. Once the people and the government start down that road the limits of Chinese power will be as apparent as the limits of US power.