Future Overlords Watch

Above is the trailer for a documentary by director Weijun Chen called Please Vote For Me, which chronicles a democratic experiment carried out using a typical class of Chinese 3rd graders. Three students are nominated for class monitor, and then set out to campaign for their peers' votes. What the trailer hints at is a fascinating and kind of frightening study of the ruthlessness of these tiny politicians; these kids, raised in the world's largest Communist state, take to democracy, in all its good and bad facets, so naturally you'd think they had run some of the most amoral campaigns in the latest US midterms. These are the future leaders of government and commerce in China and most likely the world at large.

Meanwhile, the current Chinese business leadership is renting white people to pose as foreign investors in order to impress the locals: