I don't know about that. China is just as bad as the west when it comes to privacy, and they use it to help crush dissent in their citizens. As for the environ

I don't know about that. China is just as bad as the west when it comes to privacy, and they use it to help crush dissent in their citizens. As for the environment, while they've been taking steps to remedy that, they're still behind the West on this. I also don't think I agree that democracies are slow to adapt. When there's the political will, democracies can get new laws passed quite quickly. The problem is when people don't care or disagree about what to do. An "autocracy" like China avoids the problem of disagreement, but only by ignoring all disagreements and following the rulers, whether their decisions are good or bad. Usually bad, judging by the censorship, forced organ harvesting, disappearings of dissidents, etc. It's easy to try extrapolating China's current growth and think that China will become the world superpower. Except they're still the underdogs, and a lot can still go wrong. They could plateau, like Japan did. Xi Jinping will eventually be too old to rule, and it'll be a coin toss as to whether or not his replacement will be competent. As wages in China rise, companies that outsourced to them could move to cheaper countries. If they suffer a recession, I don't know what will happen, but with a government that loves cracking down on disagreement I don't expect it to be pretty. China's on a good trajectory, economically speaking. But it's too early to say who will win out in the 21st century.