The Great Wall Country

China is a Great Wall country. It is comfortable inside its Great Wall, which has protected its borders from as early as the seventh century BC. The present generation of Chinese political and intellectual elite are convinced that the Chinese Great Wall has expanded in the twenty-first century; it now encircles not just China but several other nations (including America). For the first time in their history, the Chinese elite has developed a global vision and ambition. The twenty-first century could turn out to be the Chinese century.