> The biggest surprise of the 21st century...

The century is only 15 years old. Give it time.

Social revolutions take decades to hatch after the conditions become right, and decades more of "happening" before there is any certainty about what they turned into.

The only thing that was ridiculous was the idea that a country with 1/3 of the world population would stay irrelevant forever. But outside of that, the future is incredibly uncertain.