Concerns with China

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Based on a signal by Max MarmerChinese government refusing to allow edge.org book to be published, Implications for China's Intellectual FutureChinese government refusing to allow edge.org book What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, because "some content is not accordant to Chinese regulations, for example, some content about religious, soul."Steven Pinker one of the 109 Authors of the Q&A book responds poignantly, "There is a profound issue lurking here. Everyone says that China will be the next scientific and economic power. Is this compatible with their ongoing rejection of open debate and exploration of ideas? Is a technologically advanced society compatible with anti-intellectualism and suppression of debate? It's hard to see how China will ever compete with the West as a source of scientific and technological innovation if ideas cannot be discussed and evaluated. Or will the Internet — which can never be completely censored — and a stream of PhDs returning from the West eventually pressure them to open up?"--Hypothesis of ImpactTime scale: In the next 3 yearsI am skeptical about China's ability, as many project, to become the world's next great super power.Their government is unstable and corrupt. They have virtually no regulations and the environmental conditions in china are abysmal and getting worse. Further, I agree with Steven Pinker, in that I do not see how China can surpass the Western world in intellectual discoveries in capital in such a closed and restrictive society.Quantity over quality will not win in the 21st century especially because of the increased importance of creativity and the diminishing importance of manual labor.