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In regard to "is China going to cut itself off from the world," you and I both (as well as SerpentzSA and LaoWhy86 on Youtube and a host of others) have both been saying for some time that the answer is "yes, they ARE, in fact, going into a Qing-Dynasty-like phase of isolation. George Friedman predicted in 2011 that this would begin happening "some time around 2020."