The threat to China from its invisible population
How 800m starkly poor & undereducated people pose a challenge to Beijing
Hello and welcome to What China Wants.
In this, the penultimate geopolitical post of Series 2, I want to explore one of the most important (but underreported) reasons why China will struggle to fulfil the great expectations of global dominance that it has laid out for itself. In short, the country is dangerously divided at home, with its rural population…
