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Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. —NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I find it very remarkable given China’s insular nature for so many millennia that Napoleon would have an opinion about China at all. Over the course of his storied life, he never ventured into China personally but somehow managed to express an insight extraordinarily prescient and curiously fearful for someone who feared no army. Napoleon never elaborated on why he felt this way about China, but in more recent years, many people in the business and political worlds have come to feel as he did.

In the two centuries since Napoleon’s death, the rest of the world would get to know the Chinese people far better than he could have. Especially ...

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