India’s Peaceful Century and China’s Fifty Years — The Media’s Responsibility for Creating the Regime
September 29, 2010

Earlier today, while having a late lunch at my usual restaurant, I was reading the Sankei Shimbun.
There was a contributed article by a former Indian Navy Vice Admiral.
He wrote that China must spend the next fifty years solving the problems of its domestic poor, while India must spend the next one hundred years addressing its own poverty.
India, he said, hopes for peace during this hundred-year period.

As a personal aside, I wondered whether this Vice Admiral might have read my own Civilization’s Turntable.
Behind my reaction lies a firm conviction: even a hundred years would not suffice for India to abolish the caste system—it is impossible.
Nor would fifty years be enough for China to shed the one-party dictatorship of the Communist Party—that too is impossible.
Therefore, after Japan, the “Civilization’s Turntable” will not rotate toward China or India.
If it is to turn elsewhere, my reasoning suggests it may be Brazil—where poverty and inequality remain the central problems, but where society is not bound by immutable systems like caste or one-party rule.

It must be emphasized that the Civilization’s Turntable does not revolve merely on economic growth.
There are conditions for it to turn, conditions which I set forth when I first introduced my essay.
Without them, no nation can hope to carry the axis of civilization forward.

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In conclusion—let me repeat once again—the true party that must reflect and repent is the mass media, which created such a government in the first place.
That is what I point out.