Quote from: monsta666 on Feb 04, 2024, 03:15 AMYour thoughts; will China still be able to rule the world?
The Chinese are TOAST.
Far as ruling the world goes, nobody will be able to do that. Global systems are too complex, supply chains too long for any empire to be global in scope again. It will be a long time before an Empire can even achieve the size of the Roman Empire circa 50AD.
A better question is whether China will be able to rule all of SE Asia, plus Australia. Competitors for running the show in that region would be Oz, Japan and South Korea, because it's unlikely China itself will hold together as a single political unit. Like the FSoA, I can see China breaking up into regional fiefdoms.
The biggest variable will be the speed of dieoff and who suffers an agricultural failure first. If China sees a failure of their rice crop first, that will create havoc there and war of course. Impossible to know what will emerge from such a war.
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