Technology and Our New World 

China is the future 

China is currently the world’s second largest and most powerful ecomony – only surpassed by the U.S.A. -- for the moment. 

But with the world’s largest population and a dedication to mass education, literacy and scientific progress, China is on the verge of becoming the world’s economic and technological leader. 

Once capitalism was allowed to emerge, China’s economy has blossomed in mere decades and generated world class and dominant companies. 

Jack Ma’s 18 year old Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer and operates in 200 countries. Its online sales and profits surpassed Walmart, Amazon and eBay combined since 2015. 
It has been expanding into the media industry and entering the electric and self-driving automotive markets as Ma continues to expand the world-wide reach of his multi-billion dollar empire. 

Chinese web browser, Baidu, created in 2000, is now a world leader and marketer of internet technologies an AI and its various products under the DU banner and has 13 computer support award-winning products currently – with more on the way (See Wikipedia). 

And while the U.S. with its population of 325,000,000 people graduates 30,000 engineers a year, China, with 3.4 BILLION people, graduated 300,000! 

Chinese state controlled corporations are also now reaching around the globe to buy up coal and other key minerals for its factories and industries: from Africa to South America to Canada. Agricultural land as well – as in Africa. And Canada now is being challenged by Chinese government affiliated corporations trying to buy up nursing homes to high end tech companies. 

 Add to this today’s headline story: the successful cloning macaque monkeys, a major breakthrough in the field -- and only steps aware from human cloning -- took place at the Academy of Science in Shanghai, by an all-Chinese research team! (G&M, January 25, A1, A3). 

Finally, the younger scions of those who have power or are the captains of capitalism now flaunt the Communist, minimalist mindset by driving Lamborghinis and Ferraris and other exotic pricey cars, and, as recently covered by the Globe and Mail, flaunt their wealth by having their vehicles re-sprayed with new and dramatic colours or entire complex patterns often – some even once a month – as a fashion statement: like changing one’s clothing.(https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/colourful-cars-of-china/article37419072/). 

The mix of massive population, mass education, entrepreneurship and innovation – let alone the astute Communist leadership’s economic success, means that US and Western European domination in these vital areas will soon be eclipsed. 

The world’s center of power and scientific innovation is shifting to the East. 

And Mandarin may soon become as common as English; the new lingua franca of the world.