BUSINESS: On The Job in China," photoessay by Edward Burtynsky, Time,, 9 July 2007, p. 24.

Neat shots.

Subtitle says it all:

A wave of more than 100 million rural workers has flocked to cities for factory work, fed by Western demand for cheap goods. If conditions aren't ideal, they are often better than farm life.

The biggest migration in human history. The entire flow of African slaves was less than 15 million, spread over decades. This is 100 million in less than a generation and many more to come. Making that migration work is the biggest challenge the Chinese Communist Party faces. Anything that threatens that development threatens the Party's rule.

All fantasies about "unrestricted warfare" aside, the PLA doesn't have a clue about how to defend the regime from the greatest threat it can possibly face: rising expectations.