If anyone had said in 1950 that the world’s great economic powerhouses a half century later would be Japan and Germany that person would have been ridiculed. If you argued in 1970 that by 2007 China would be the world’s fourth-largest economic power, the laughter would have been even more intense. But it would have been no funnier than arguing in 1800 that the United States by 1900 would be a world power. Things change, and the unexpected should be expected.

~   George Friedman
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