I'm always surprised whenever a reader gets the impression that I am anti-Chinese. The opposite is true. I believe that China not only gave the world one of the highest and most sophisticated civilisations in the history of its humanity, but also that it has achieved a unique miracle: longevity, thousands of years. The people living in China today are the direct descendants (language, culture, mentality) of those who created this civilisation; and this is not true of other ancient...