I&#x27;ve lived in Beijing for the last 8.5 years working in tech. We all thought the last decade was when everything was going to happen, and most of us were disappointed when it didn&#x27;t. Granted, when I first moved here, the pollution wasn&#x27;t as bad, the censorship wasn&#x27;t as bad, but things changed. Perhaps China might start on an upward opening up trajectory again, but it has been closing up since 2008 (great if you want to be sheltered from foreign competition, bad if you want to practice your world game in an open market).