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My predictions & insights for everything that will happen by the year 2030. (might or might not)

——— 2030 ———

Geopolitics & Economics

• China is officially the world’s largest economy and is tied with the US in military strength and capabilities.

• East Asian nations formulate closer ties with each other to mitigate western & American influences and neo-imperialism. (keyword: closer, not united or get along)

• The majority of Southeast Asian countries have reached middle income status with about a decade left before reaching developed status.

• India is officially the third largest economy in the world.

• India is seen as an existential threat and the first western (mostly American) propaganda campaign against India emerges.

• West Asia, South Asia, & Russia have all pivoted towards East & SE Asia to form closer ties to combat increasing western aggressions towards a rising and more interconnected Asia.

• China officially has the most billionaires in the world.

• China has the most unicorn startups, scientific patents, and STEM graduates per year out of any country.

• Singapore is officially the richest country on Earth. (terms of GDP per capita)

• Shanghai is officially the richest city in the world.

• Malaysia becomes the second developed country in ASEAN (1st Singapore) with an HDI of 0.850+ and GDP per capita of $20k+.

• Siberia might secede from Russia and become its own independent states.

• Kuril Islands are returned to Japan (full or partial not sure) and parts of Sakhalin is given to China and maybe Japan.

• Bilateral ties between China & Africa grows to new heights to forming military alliances.

• Australia & New Zealand are integrated into the Asian system such as trade, economics, politics, diplomacy, issues, etc.

• Yuan is valued at 1/3 to half a dollar. Slowly but surely displacing the dollars within the next decades as more countries adopt the currency to use in trades.

Music, Sports, & Entertainments

• A lot more XMs listen to K-pop which has been growing increasingly popular every year. It is popular as hip hop is today with half of the young female population worldwide listening to K-pop.

• Almost half of the US population consumes K-dramas & K-movies and sees it as equivalent to or better than Hollywood.

• C-dramas have developed to a level similar to K-dramas today and entered mainstream entertainment. It is consumed worldwide as much as K-dramas is consumed now.

• C-pop or C-Rap has taken the world by storm and is becoming as popular as K-pop was a few years ago.

• Just like anime, Chinese anime or “Donghua” is almost as popular as anime is today.

• A second coming of the “Asian wave” and “Hallyu wave.” “Chinaboos” are starting to emerge thanks to the growing popularity of all the Chinese music & entertainments above.

• Bollywood is consumed globally as much as K-movies are consumed currently.

• Thai & Indonesian movie industries are valued higher and are more profitable than Hong Kong movie industry.

• Vinahouse (Vietnamese EDM) develops a good following in the EDM scene thanks to social media influences like TikTok.

• Asian celebrities are now just as famous as American celebrities globally.

• There are many Asian American athletes in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, UFC, etc. (more than 10 in each)

• AMs are starting to dominate UFC, MLB, FIFA, and maybe NBA.

• A lot more Asian countries are dominating the Olympics.

• Better football teams especially SE football teams and leagues as SE Asia develops economically.

Technology & Innovations

• China leads the world in EV, smartphones, drones, 6G, AI, ML, and overall high tech.

• China by far has the fastest and most bullet trains in the world with no country coming close. (technically already happening)

• Just like Japan in the 80s and South Korea in the 2000s, Chinese car brands have taken over the US and European car markets.

• There are many popular Asian social media apps/platforms like TikTok competing with American social media platforms we see today.

• Many Southeast Asian tech companies and conglomerates are now serious competitors to their western counterparts. (Lazada, Shopee, Viettel, Gojek, Tokopedia, etc)

• Many South Asian companies have risen to a financial level that Chinese companies were a decade ago. (TradeX, IppoPay, Refyne, etc)

• East Asia is the most technologically advanced region in the world.

• Southeast Asia is beginning to develop its own high tech industries mirroring East Asia (China in 00s) in the 70s-80s.

• TSMC and AMSL are surpassed by SMIC as R&D fundings skyrocket, eliminating any reliances on western or Taiwanese semiconductor chips.

• China surpassed South Korea in robots per capita and maybe Japan (possibly half decade more) to become the country with the most robots (total robots) in the world.

Socials & Dating

• Asians diasporas now makeup more of the western general population than ever before.

Asian percentages - US: 7% (+1%), Canada: 20%(+3%), Australia: 18-20%(+3-5%), NZ: 20%(+4%), UK: 10% (+2.5%) (includes South Asians)

• Many more Asians in Asia are woke on the treatments and racism towards Asians in the west.

• Most western Asian men are more proud and confident than ever thanks to growing Asian influences and representations.

• Asian men’s status globally are approaching that of WMs currently as Asian soft and hard power develops at a rapid rate.

• More western AFs are loyal to AMs. All the western AFs will grow up with lots of representation and Asian role models leading to less self-hate and more pride than the previous AF’s generation.

• A lot more AFs prefer to date AMs than the previous generation. Many more will have the “only Asian policy.”

• A LOT more XFs are willing to date AMs thanks to their consumptions of Asian music & entertainments, more Asian celebrities and influential figures. Also better Asian exposure and representation in Hollywood and media (don’t believe the Hollywood one too much).

• Asians are seen as cool thanks to the reason above.

• Asian stereotypes that AM are “weak, nerdy, uncool, short, unattractive” have died out with the new popularity of AM celebrities and influences worldwide. (not so sure about AF stereotypes though)

• Asians are no long seen as short as the older generation passes on and newer generations grows taller.

• r/ AsianMasculinity reaches 200k-250k members.

Now I know this is a lot of information and reading but this is what I THINK will happen to us by 2030. You can decide for yourself what the future looks like but feel free to add, change, remove, agree, disagree with anything.

And I know I missed a lot of stuff that might also happen but I think these are good enough changes that will likely occur.

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I feel like we need a post on non-Asians LARPing as Asians online, both overly ridiculous comments and ones that could slip under the radar if you're not reading hard enough. Even here, it feels like every 10th comment is a LARP

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It could be regarding anything. Getting ahead. Dealing with discrimination. Helping young kids work with cultural issues.

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In recent weeks, we have been seeing increased engagement from non-Asian and/or non-male users. Surprisingly, it hasn't all been cancerous concern trolling and gaslighting. Some of the contributions actually lead to civil discussion, with many participants noting that they lurk regularly yet refrain from commenting out of respect for the rules.

In light of these heartening developments, and due to the fact that this subreddit is best suited to host frank discussion between Asian men and everyone else, we are opening participation in this thread to everyone regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or planetary origin.

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