[drt1]

"It is underway. it will take a long time."

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Contrary to the Western image of China as a monolithic, homogeneous behemoth there are many critical cultural, ethnic, geographic social and economic subsets within the PRC construct that will come unglued rapidly at any opportunity. Remember the USSR - It was viewed the same way and, when the opportunity for it's similarly composed amalgamation to break free presented itself the end was fairly rapid.

[bert]

.....Perhaps not.....

You are correct of course.

Gazing at the smokey whirl in the crystal ball with binoculars leaves much to be desired. My less than perfect view indicates there is an effort to allow the old communists to just fade away as the educated and entrepreneurial Chinese take hold. Along with the millions of overseas Chinese in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Taiwan, Vancouver and San Francisco, the younger residents will make the transformation with no bloodshed.

The task is positively enormous and the outcome is uncertain but..... the transition is very well underway.