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… what we foreigners see … “it’s the economy, stupid”… land use and real estate and grow GDP. Urban planning as if the economy mattered. Beyond that, the Chinese version of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Now China faces existential problems created by the one-child policy and the economic development model of “too much is not enough.” By 2100, the population will halve. The 40 year economic model is past its sell date. At the same time, China leads the world in new technology in nearly every field – robots, batteries, AI, energy, medicine. It is hoovering up the world’s oil, gas, minerals. Siberia looks promising. It is energetic and positive, unlike the US now. For CCP now, just like in 1902, What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement.
