But wanted to say:

Just make lots of tanks. You need like 16 planes to kill one tank. Tank rush all the way.

Also, model your country like Protoss. The terran system is too complex, and requires too much micromanagement in any war.

The 21st century will be decided by who builds the most effective memetic networks to trap information so they can efficiently utilize their capital. And China is lagging far behind nearly everyone--India, Brazil, most other developing countries--in this regard, because right now it's encouraging massive inflows of capital to jump-start it's massive supply of labor, but those gains will peter out unless it can add information through a memetic network to that mix.

So, in a sense, ideals like ethics and morality do matter, but only as a memetic tool to win.

And to propagate memetics, the CCP needs to have a paradigm shift. Unfortunately, I don't see such a shift occuring until the internet generation ends up ruling China in 2050.

The game was simple, you had a ship that moved across the bottom of the screen and fired straight upwards. The aim of the game was to shoot these 'space invaders' as the marched down the screen towards your ship.

This game reminds me of China.

Like Beijing, the ship had only one strategy, it moved in two dimensions and shot anybody who got in its way. Much like China, the ship simply moved and shot, and was unable to negotiate with the space invaders or to reach any rational solution to its problems. It was simply kill kill kill.

This was OK, for the most part. The space invaders were slow and had no strategy, they just kept marching onwards and downwards and you kept shooting them.

However, as the game progressed, the invaders became more numerous and they became faster too. You could shoot 1 but there would always be 2 more to take its place. Eventually, you ended up trapped in a corner firering desperately at the top of the screen as the surviving invaders killed you through sheer weight of numbers.

This is what will happen to Beijing. It's problems are increasing and the people are becoming increasingly restless, and all Beijing is doing is sticking with the same tactic of crushing anybody who speaks out against it. Moving in two dimensions and firing at the top of its own little screen.

Unless Beijing changes its stragety, it will be doomed to the same fate as your ship in space invaders, it will be trapped in a corner, firing its guns upwards as the weight of 1.3 billion people and 1.3 billion environmental disasters, corrupt officials, and landless farmers crushes down upon it.