What does it portend when women shave their heads?

In 2017 it seemed that China would dominate the world with "an irresponsible and ignorant American President" and the roll out of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) "looked set to cement Chinese ambitions globally", wrote K Raslan. But, 2018 turned out to be a bad year for China. Why? "First off, the Belt and Road has failed. It has become the object of relentless criticism, if not ridicule..." "Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China's strategic interests. In short: Others pay, China benefits." "Meanwhile, cracks are emerging in China's economy and the superpower is looking less invincible." "At the same time dissent amongst China's policymakers is also growing." Perhaps to show its defiance of world opinion China has turned BRI into a military program in Pakistan. At the beginning of the year, "the Pakistani air force and Chinese officials were putting the final touches on a secret proposal to expand Pakistan's building of Chinese military jets, weaponry and other hardware". As wages rise and an aging population creates labor shortage China has set out a plan, known as 'Made in China 2025', to become a world leader in advanced technology, like robotics, Artificial Intelligence and biotechnology. Unfortunately, in its hurry for world hegemony, China is resorting to hacking to steal research data from other nations and to forced technology transfer from foreign companies working in China. The European Union has complained to the World Trade Organisation against China's practice. The US and the UK have accused China of a "sustained hacking campaign" across the world to steal commercial intellectual property. The US announced indictment of two Chinese nationals, it says are members of a hacking group known as APT10, which "acted in association with" Chinese state security. "China deserves its economic success," wrote Prof Zhang Jun. According to Jun, "China is not an enemy of the US" and its enormous trade surplus is "not intentionally through exchange-rate controls and distortionary policies". China is not yet an enemy of the US because the US is militarily stronger and because of Obama's supine response but it is definitely an enemy of its neighbors, grabbing the South China Sea by force, wrote Prof B Chellaney. It has a stranglehold on Tibet by brute force and ethnic cleansing. Jun thinks that "China seems unlikely to face anything like the Soviet Union's fate". That is because Xi Jinping will never allow 'glasnost and perestroika', as Gorbachev did, which allowed the Soviet Union to break up in peace. China is a pressure cooker where minorities are interned in camps and subjected to forced labor and women shave their heads to protest illegal detention of their husbands. China will most likely implode into civil war, and the sooner it happens the better for the rest of the world.