Universal Replication and the “Chinese Century”

In addition to the factors mentioned by Mark Steyn, there is another reason the current Chinese regime is unlikely to be a world power. China is mainly successful at being the “workshop of the world.” When universal replicators make large-scale workshops unnecessary …

So if there's a propaganda campaign against replicators, we'll know that the Chinese Communist Party is behind it.

Speaking of propaganda campaigns …

Is it a mere coincidence that the anti-nuclear campaign went into high gear in the mid 1970s, when OPEC became able to pay for propaganda on a large scale?