Everything’s Bigger In China

China isn’t just the USA copy-cat anymore. In many ways, they still are, but they’ve moved beyond this.

Their population is bigger, their companies are bigger, their highways and cities are bigger.

Their leaders are powerful, their world influence is far-reaching, and their culture is spreading.

They work harder and faster, they fight business as a winner-takes-all game. They cheat, break the rules, and look for shortcuts. They want to drive huge company valuations, not follow esoteric ‘company values’. They work 9-to-9 6 days per week. They’re looking beyond China.

Sub-half-day e-commerce deliveries are expected, even by drone in small villages. Coffee Fulfillment Centers deliver drinks still hot. 1-ton capacity autonomous drones are being build for warehouse-to-warehouse logistics.

They have a communist government, and it’s leading with heavy-handed government policies and ‘Chinese Characteristics’. It’s also leading growth and innovation.

China’s wind-farms are bigger, their nuclear power plants are bigger, and the government is pushing for no gas-car manufacturing by 2020 while crushing environmentally un-compliant factories.

Has the Chinese government pulled more people out of poverty than the United Nations?

I don’t understand what’s really happening in China. Today, I’m learning what I can.

Without making good/bad value judgements, it is clear to me that this is important.

China is not just an ‘oppressive country with poor citizens who don’t know freedom’. Though much of ‘Communism With Chinese Characteristics’ is offensive to Western values, China is more than Communism, more than Mao, and much more than reaches Western Media.

I feel that perhaps we’ve already seen the center of the world return East, but I do not know.

– Nico J