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Markets don't consider geopolitical futures. China is sucking in the entire developing world like a black hole as the source of capital and financing, industrial and technical expertise, industrial software and computer systems, chemicals and technical components. In return, it receives exclusive access to the developing world's raw materials, which it then uses to create consumer goods and consumer machinery sold to developed countries in exchange for capital, which enables the expansion and enhancement of the technical and financing services it offers to developing countries, thus its access to raw materials, and sequentially the hyper-competitiveness of its exports to developed countries.

The West gets plastic toys, pencils & pens, coffee machines, electric teapots, wigs and shiny computers and cell phones. China controls the global means of production and the resources required to produce and strengthens this. The countries of the West are the Indians proverbially exchanging land for beads. Eventually, the developing world's demand for Chinese capital and technical-industrial development services will exceed the West's demand for Chinese consumer goods and it will be more cost effective & profitable for China to produce consumer goods in Afro-Indopak factories at lower wages rather than in its own borders.

China will shed low-value industry and become a tertiary service economy and governance model for the Global South, beating the West at its own game. The West will merely be the Pepsi to China's Coke. The Communist Party of China will not make the same mistakes as the West, and will use first world abundance for technological and scientific advancement rather than consumption, according to each five year plan. The 22nd Century is a general triumph of reason, development, authoritarianism, and legalism over the principles of chaos,
stagnation, relativism, and democracy.

If I dare say it, perhaps for our descendants, a 'good end'.