The Chinese slumber still; but I am firmly persuaded from what I saw of China that the moment they will begin to manufacture with the aid of European machinery--and the first steps have already been made--they will do it with more success, and necessarily on a far greater scale, than even the Japanese.
Kropotkin expresses confidence that China will surpass Japan in manufacturing once it fully adopts European technology.
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