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Nicholas Kristof gives us another piece on China's future domination:

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.

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.”
Maybe it's best that I'm getting on in years, because I am not learning Mandarin.

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.
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