Originally Posted by Zeld2.0

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A few days ago my mother and father just returned from a 2 week trip to Taiwan and China. They haven't visited China in nearly 10 years and they were absolutely flat out shocked at how much China had changed. Though conditions in rural China are still poor as ever as many, many people are still living the life of a peasant, the conditions in the cities and what one might call "mainstream" China has absolutely skyrocketed.

I hope I get a chance to visit and check it out for myself and the general concensus I find now is that China is growing at a very fast (even alarming) rate and so it may very well be possible that China becomes the next superpower within 20 years and can possibly eclipse the U.S. at its rate now within our own lifetimes.