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Nicholas Kristof gives us another piece on China's future domination:
Though, rereading that, I just noticed that she is the women's world champion. At first, I thought it was for both men and women. That's not to say I'd care to play her, but the news is a little less sparkly. Maybe world domination is still some decades away.
If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan.Maybe it's best that I'm getting on in years, because I am not learning Mandarin.
Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world.
Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.”
Though, rereading that, I just noticed that she is the women's world champion. At first, I thought it was for both men and women. That's not to say I'd care to play her, but the news is a little less sparkly. Maybe world domination is still some decades away.
