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Oh Boy,

With so many different dialects, national groupings and the like, China is the last of the great powers of the Cold war era (demographically, politically, and geographically) which has not yet broken up.

The more that China grows, particularly in its southern coastal belt, the greater the disparities will be between seaboard Chinese, inland (or agri-) Chinese, and expatriate Chinese.

The Chinese will continue to advance economically, given both the sheer bulk of their population, and the extent to which they are starting out from the back-line. But with less than 5% of the population having access to telephone services, and with a high rate of unemployment (and growing), the Chinese authorities certainly have their work cut out for them.

Not only do they have to modernise China.

They also have to keep at bay their traditional enemies (Japan, the Koreans and Vietnamese, the Indians, and the Siberians /Russia). And, that's before you count in the West, factor for taiwan, and convince the world that China's one nation, 2-systems approach involvivng S.A.R. Hong Kong will truly work (ie: be adhered to).

Beyond this, they have to find jobs for their growing population, whilst facing the same problems as the world over (ie: rural communities uprooting to move to urban environments).

Going further, they will also have to confront how best to secure an equalisation of income and wealth (something which shows up the extremes of the Chinese economic model).

N.W.O. maybe. N.W.C. (chaos) - much more likely.