What I know about China know

impossible to summarise but it includes:

-poverty and wealth issues
-massive cities, traffic, pollution, energy and population issues (60% of 1.3 bn people still live in coutryside but by 2020, it might be only 30 or 40%)
-migrant workers
-chinese language (1-2,000 words), about half of China visited, country as cold as siberia and as hot as thailand, as dusty as the sahara and as wet as pakistan, as high as the himalayas and so wide it would take 3 days by train from beijing to west china
-big: city sizes, buildings, government projects, number of people learning english yet number of people who cannot speak a word of english, so big there are 50 or so 'minorities' and langauges so diverse that cantonese is as different to mandarin as french is to english, that shanghainese as different as irish is to english (and the shanghainese and bejingese dislike each other more than the french and the english!)
-chinese festivals, history, politics, businesses (taking over the World)
-tibet being 'liberated' by china about 50 years ago and taiwan still being a 'province' of china. The Vatican not talking to Beijing (but Taipai), but that China replaced Taiwan in Security Council, yet both are members of the WTO
-that over 200 million people have been lifted from poverty, that over 300 million have mobile phones, that satellite dishes can be found everywhere in the country yet foreign TV on the cable stations goes blank when certain topics are discussed.
-that chinese people are very logical, very family orientated, non-religious, have great and hugely diverse food including regional variations and can have more that 1 child if both parents are single children or if they are a farming family or can pay a big fine!
-that some goods are 10 times cheaper than the UK (local bus travel or rice) but other things are almost the same (computers or mobile phones) and others more expensive (luxury cars or jewellery) but that fakes are everywhere.

and so so so so so so so so so so much more!

but what do other foreigners that come to china for 1 week, or that never come to china and maybe just hear about china in the news, or maybe don't even do that.. what do they know? What do the people who are making decisions about politics or business with china actually know about china?

and i still know so little about china: a novice am i, to learn more must i, might a successful future depend (as Yoday might say!)