What will China look like in 30 years?

[Ideologue]

I was truly born 30 years too late.

[Ed Anger]

I was truly born 30 years too late.

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[Warspite]

I have some optimism for China because it is a one-party state that has at least managed leadership transitions within its ruling clique; unlike the Arab world, for instance, there's a culture of peaceful political change to some basic extent. So I went with the "looks a bit more like Singapore" option. Perhaps even moving a rittle to the reft... a rittle bit more...

[Ideologue]

I was truly born 30 years too late.

2 DOLLA GI JOE. ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME.

Before HIV swept through SE Asia, too.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Middle income trap, but more S'pore-ish and liberal. The Chicom leadership will have realized that the mechanisms of elite reproduction in a capitalist republic are less prone to instability than those of a one-party state, so they'll be slowly shifting in that direction. The middle income trap also won't seem that abnormal, since the First World will have been experiencing similar phenomena for close to four decades.

[Admiral Yi]

China can't just replicate the Singapore model because China is not as homogeneous as Singapore.  There's no urban/rural divide in Singapore and no real rich/poor divide.

I think the biggest problem for the CP is corruption.  Not because it would be impossible to stamp out, but because if it were stamped out it might be very, very difficult to attract and retain talent in the party, given the opportunity to acquire wealth in the private sector.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Some people are more interested in power than wealth, and if corruption is stamped out then wealth will be less easily converted into power.

[Eddie Teach]

Some people are more interested in power than wealth, and if corruption is stamped out then wealth will be less easily converted into power.

But if corruption is stamped out, that also means less power for agents of the government.

[CountDeMoney]

LOL, stamping out Chinese corruption, an element of society and government since before the time of Christ.  Easier off stamping out noodles.

[Admiral Yi]

LOL, stamping out Chinese corruption, an element of society and government since before the time of Christ.  Easier off stamping out noodles.

I don't think that's true.

[Tonitrus]

I was truly born 30 years too late.

We should do our patriotic duty by trying to draw away even more Chinese women the West.

[CountDeMoney]

LOL, stamping out Chinese corruption, an element of society and government since before the time of Christ.  Easier off stamping out noodles.

I don't think that's true.

Institutional corruption is something Chinese bureaucracy and administration of their provinces has had to deal with since the Qin, and it's always been a major theme when it came to reasons for dynastic breakdowns as well as in the post-imperial age. 
It's simply a cultural cornerstone of the Chinese way of doing things, from the Legalists to the Communists.

[Neil]

I was truly born 30 years too late.

We should do our patriotic duty by trying to draw away even more Chinese women the West.

How is encouraging their spies to prey on more stupid Western men patriotic?

[dps]

I'm the only one who voted for option #2, but I gotta say I find option #1 intriguing.

[Siege]

I don't know if I am going to vote, but interested in other people's opinions. 

I'm still waiting for Malthus prophecy of China's decline to happen.
He said it was about to happen like 10 years ago back in Paradox OT.

I, of course, voted for the yellow peril menace. China will continue to grow and eventually become the world sole superpower as we go into decline.