I think China's next move should be to turn all their citizens into programmers. They have all the factories, the fabrication equipment, and the general know-h

I think China's next move should be to turn all their citizens into programmers. They have all the factories, the fabrication equipment, and the general know-how. And by doing so, then they get all the network effect benefits. They become programmers, researchers, programming language designers, QA engineers, systems analysts, etc., and eventually technical managers and business leaders. And they also get all the benefits of having a very technical and highly educated workforce. It's interesting that a recent survey of their school children, said that 56% wanted to become Astronauts. The next phase of their national development should probably be to move into design, research, development, and ultimately indigenous intellectual property. The past 10 years of smartphones have changed the country, that their children are exposed to all the software and technology at a young age. This should make it easier for them to become engineers, programmers, scientists, and mathematicians, as they enter college. Their current generation of engineers has proven that they have the technical capabilities to achieve that. They appear to be very good at building massive infrastructure. So they can plan, design, architect, and build out massive things (high speed rail, rockets, military planes). But let's see if they can build out small things, like software systems (OS, compilers, AI, etc.) It will be interesting if Huawei takes the lead, and their new Harmony OS becomes a viable contender in the mobile space in China. Or if it even displaces Windows and Linux as the primary desktop or server operating system within China. Maybe Microsoft would eventually port over Word and Excel to the Harmony OS? And I'm still waiting for them to come up with their own programming language. Although this might be a tall order, as C is quite popular there. However, the guy who created Vue.js is of Chinese descent, but it seems America snatched him away. Now I could be wrong, but the current perception appears as if the Trump administration is hell bent on alienating everyone of Chinese descent from working in America. If they can succeed at all this, then a slowdown in the Shenzhen manufacturing economy for export, is irrelevant. They would have evolved to the next level. They would build out their own software systems for internal consumption, and eventual export.