Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post


40 years ago bicycle was the main transportation means in China. Now they plan to have 20 million electric cars by 2025. Gone are the days when they needed western engineers, those 200-story buildings are designed by the Chinese and built by the Chinese.
I think you and I are seeing the same China.

Europeans have always marvelled at China. There are travel accounts from many centuries, all concluding more or less the same. That not Europe, but China is the centre of the world. More populous, more industrious, infinitely refined.