Coordinated fires wrote:
> Excellent article, John. With respect to the 2025 China Dream. I
> watched a very interesting presentation by Stanford University’s
> Scott Rozelle to CSIS detailing some of the problems in rural
> china. Specifically the deep intractable problems they have
> created for themselves vis-a-vis education, human resource
> development and early childhood development in rural china. It
> sounds a bit wishy-washy, but give it a chance. It is absolutely
> overflowing with new primary data collected from his numerous
> trips to rural china and he makes a very rigorous case. He argues
> that when china starts trying to make that jump from a
> middle-income industrial economy to a high-income
> information-based economy, they are going to find that the bed
> they have made for themselves in rural china is going to make that
> shift very difficult indeed, if not impossible. Many people have
> written about this topic, but the volume and quality of data
> presented is astounding.
> I think this is going to be an ENORMOUS problem that the Chinese
> are either ignoring, or are deliberately downplaying. I know
> you've written before about the stark differences between rural
> and urban china, so if you do give it a watch let me know what you
> think. Here's the link.
>
https://youtu.be/UdjHqxCyEa8