first world problems. China is lifting almost a billion people out of poverty with all these projects. Think back to the West in the early to mid 1900s for the

first world problems. China is lifting almost a billion people out of poverty with all these projects. Think back to the West in the early to mid 1900s for the right comparison context. I only hope China's rise into modernity is not accompanied by mega wars of the type that happened with the Western nations rise.