¶ China
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The Latin America world is still an agricultural world; it’s still a hacienda world. And it’s not until you get into this other plan of industrialization-- that China is now doing, and Russia, where you go in for 25-year long pulls and a great deal of suffering and austerity-- but in the end you’re going to take care of a great many more people. Very much higher standards are coming. My only hope for Latin America is that China will convince the entire world that success is possible for all men everywhere. China is going to be much more successful much earlier than anybody expected her to be. That’s one of the most fortunate things I can see in history. They are going to accomplish their industrialization really very rapidly. And they are brilliant; the Chinese are just inherently brilliant. They have a fantastic amount of experience gathered over thousands and thousands of years and they really are philosophically very powerful people. Any students I’ve ever had who were Chinese I’ve found to be fantastically keen. Once China gets off this business of protecting herself against being corrupted from outside and becomes successful, she’ll completely stop the offensive against the other fellow and will begin to disseminate technology and information in a very brilliant way.
