This is a good article about how China plays the long game.<p>(I'm not going to develop this comment very much, because the submission is not likely to get many more than my upvote... I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did, though...)<p>I ruminate on China's rise, and how the U.S. Government has squandered much of the country's wealth over the past 50 years. With that said, China also has serious problems, where it's replacing its best farmland with factories and pollution.<p>"Humanity's traditional problem was scarcity...": <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313669" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313669</a><p>China/Checkers/Chess: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442222" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442222</a>