Directions are to be determined from Jerusalem. Directly east of Jerusalem is the country of China - the most populated nation on earth.
China is on the march.
After 500 years of humiliation, a surging China is about to reclaim its historical position as one of the world's great powers. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Its culture shows a new vitality. Its armed forces modernized. And the remainder of the world watches, impressed and nervous at the same time , wondering if the new giant still seethes with resentment about that half millennium in which it was left behind.