China is spiraling back down the well. They are currently closing off, like north korea. Theire age pyramid is coming down hard on them. They have not yet a fully working info-economy, so they are running out of cheap manual labour.

So many before them, were to take the throne for all eternity, the japanese, the koreans and then they all became just another part of a connected world and on the throne remained, he who could in-cooperate change the fastest and most efficient.