Stephen Downes

Dave Truss reflects on his two years in China and what he has seen more recently on social media. "While the middle class is different, the economic reality for a middle class in China is probably better than the debt-ridden middle class in the west... Add to this the most sophisticated electronics and manufacturing industry anywhere in the world and China is an international powerhouse that will shock most people who have illusions of China being a developing country." I have been to China only briefly, in 2017, and would go back if I could. My impression of Beijing was that it was the 'capital of the world'. Nothing has happened since to change my mind.