Five Years Later: Does China Lead the World?
In 2020 I predicted that China would lead the world by 2025. Here's what I wrote..
Sheltering their deficiencies, the Western democracies shift the critical analysis to public relations stunts that highlight the supposed and exaggerated deficiencies of the Chinese system. They make no effort to learn and understand the workings of China’s political, social, and economic systems. Fabrications are added to the limited ‘don’t care to know’ and conveyed to the public as authorized knowledge. One example is the ‘debt trap’ verbiage, applied to Chinese lending, which began during Sri Lanka’s first debt crisis and has stuck around as an effective means to vilify the PRC. Dan Lieberman
In 2014 I began research for a book explaining how and why China would lead the world by 2025, Why China Leads the World to ★★★★★ reviews. Amazon at first refused to carry it, Twitter and Facebook refused–and still refuse–to advertise it. And though most folks were so unfamiliar with the real China in 2021 that they might dismiss it based on the title, but I planned to re-write the book every five years and the title would future-proof it. Now update time is here.
The 2026 edition will be released this Christmas and paying subscribers will have free access. Here’s the original preface:
PREFACE TO THE 2026 EDITION
To put the World in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the Family in order; to put the Family in order, we must first cultivate our personal lives by setting our hearts right. – Confucius.
Chinese families and their nation will be in order by 2035 because ninety-eight percent of them will own their homes, a billion will belong to the middle class, and Beijing will shift from nation-building to character-building. Confucius called it ‘setting hearts right,’ and envisaged such a compassionate society that ‘no one locks their outer doors at night’.
This book is about how China set those goals, how they organized themselves, and how they achieved them in a single lifetime. Within this immense topic, I have identified five themes:
Bad China, Good China. According to our media, in Bad China bloodthirsty Communist masters exploit resentful slaves. In Good China, people claim to be the happiest and to have the best government on earth.
