Is China an experiment in governance that no one has noticed? Specifically, Rulership by Engineers! It seems that the majority of Chinese leaders have degrees in various engineering disciplines rather than the sort of background found elsewhere in the world amidst political leadership ( as in the US - where former movie actors, community organizers, inept cronies, minority extortionists, ex beauty queens, and outright thieves are preferred to lead the nation). The concept is so surprizing that I don't know if we even have a word for it. Nor do I recall any other example of such a situation: Rule by Engineers sounds like a society in which Stuff Gets Done ( as opposed to Rule by Academics where things are theorized or Rule by Lobbyists in which Corporate desires are recast as the Will of the People). Imagine a President who knows Calculus..... wow!
