[Balgair]

Tech: CRISPR-CAS9 and better bioengineering. It's slow going stuff, but hot damn, is it ever powerful. By definition it plays well with itself. The 'cross products' are tough to deal with, thus the slow going part, but when it does mesh, man oh man!

Geo-Political: Africa's rise. ~2.5 Billion people are going to be born in Africa in the next 50 years. By 2050, the median wage for a family in Africa is going to be ~$65k/yr (in 2010 dollars). Most families will have 2 kids or less there. Africa is transitioning from stage 1-2 into stage 3-4. From walking and bicycles to cars and planes. Those markets and those young people will be very thirsty for better goods, services, education, financial planning, democratic representation, etc. Generally, the center of global trade is going to shift from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and the people that ring the old monsoon markets. Addis Abba's already has a metro system that serves ~700k people a day. The bullet train from Nairobi to Mombassa is already going ~300km/hr. Kenya already has a ~600MW geothermal power station (~1/3 of Hoover Dam). Nigeria's Eko Atlantic project is ~half done with reclaiming ~200 Manhattan's worth of land area from the Atlantic Ocean. It's 'Great Wall of Africa' is mostly done now and is proofed to the worst climate change can throw at it, due in part to the 8 weather satellites that Nigeria has currently in orbit. Africa is going to be where a young, vibrant, well educated, culturally diverse, middle class is trying to make it's mark and improve the lives of their children. It is most assuredly not a place of 'shit-hole countries', and The Import-Export Bank of China knows this. The West should know to shelve the racism, and fast, for the good of it's geo-political future and it's pocket-book.