I feel that China is the world's greatest civilization when you look at the log run of history however as I watch the Corbett Report I feel a lot of the progress achieved by modern day China was really due to the Western elites purposely giving China technology and capital beyond what it would appear would be mutually beneficial i.e. give this to get access for cheap labour but they went even further with no obvious reason why.  Some historical footnotes I was wondering others can comment on: the Sassoon family monopolized the opium trade profit which appears to have ruined the Chinese empire, Mao was groomed by Americans and was a Skull&Bones man like the Bushes, the Communists appear to have been favoured surprisingly by the Americans against the Nationalists and a Rockefeller met with Mao in the 60s.  I am mainly interested in world peace and I wonder is the modern Chinese government working for the betterment of China or are they corruptocrats?