Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha View Post
I agree in all those points, but it should be noted also that there are destabilizing effects there. As China´s populations average income increases and their quality of life becomes better. It is inevitable that the population will start demanding more individual rights and democrazy, thus China cant shut herself from the rest of the world when it comes to influences, while at the same time they are opening themselves up for the global market, which gives them prosperity.
Quite right, which is a good thing, IMO. Slowly, the creation of a strong middle class will force China to democratise from the inside, but I don't think it's gonna cause some great upheavals some have been dreaming of. Compare individual rights in China 40 years ago and now - huge improvement, and yet there was no great revolutions in between, China keeps picking up the pace, not slowing down. China is an incredibly stable country, more than 90% are ethnic Han. Yes, it's true that a 1% minority ethnic group in China is bigger than population of about half of European countries but percentage-wise, it's a drop in the ocean.

The only thing that may actually slow down China is lack of energy and mineral resources.