Christophe wrote:
The Chinese dream will therefore last only at best 2 or 3 decades ... and not 10% of the population will have really benefited from it ...
Am much more skeptical. Not specifically China, but emerging countries: China, India, ...
Look at the path taken by Japan, then Korea, then more recently Taiwan ... Cheap goods, odor the markets, then "go up" in the ranges until one day being the world specialist, like Toyota in Africa, Sony in the world or Acer, etc ...
China will mount Airbuses.
And don't forget the level of mass training in these countries, particularly India, but also China. Engineers and researchers of high level, that the Americans snatch. Where in shape 100 in our miserable universities, they form 10 000 !!!
I do not want to hide some problems like pollution bordering on self-extermination ... But hey ...
No, I think we will soon be just a Liechtenstein on a global scale ...