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China is still many years behind the West. Who knows if they'll ever catch up. Some day the protests that are now happening in Hong Kong might spread over to mainland China. You're looking at one of the biggest civil wars ever then. Chinese dynasties have always ended in violence, why would it be different now? Hundreds of millions of Chinese could die if the government ever loses control.