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While China's growth has been strong
and steady for a generation,

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the country's future
expansion will almost certainly be limited

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by the fact that there is a finite

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amount of space on the planet Earth
and that it will likely be centuries

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before China develops the means to travel
to other habitable planets

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and expand its sphere of influence
beyond our solar system.

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Unless China's space agency invents
the interstellar propulsion technology

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necessary to expand the nation's
reach to planets in distant star

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clusters, then the end is in sight
for China's boom times.

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For China, the party is almost over,
likely leaving the nation with economic,

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military and cultural dominance over
just a single celestial body

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and leaving the vast majority
of the galaxy and indeed, the universe.

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Sadly and humiliatingly out of reach

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for the once
unstoppable economic juggernaut.