On May 1, 2030, International Labor Day, the evening news worldwide has only one top news item: China's new prime minister is not a person, but an avatar. The pictures of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party show, indeed, a lifelike figure on the right side of President Xi, who bears considerable resemblance to the first head of the government of the People's Republic of Zhou Enlai, also bearing the name of his son Sun Yang, but in reality is a hologram. China is celebrating the appointment as a great success on the way to fulfilling the Chinese dream and a vital stage victory just a few years before the centenary of the founding of the People's Republic. President Xi says that the wisdom and courage of the founding generation will now be preserved forever. Xi says, "No power in the world can make better decisions if we are protected by our ancestors. They guide my hand and give us their wisdom. China, under the leadership of its party, has become invincible once and for all." Only insiders know that the top secret Tianhe-10 (Milky Way) supercomputer, which controls the Avatar's utterances and movements, has been instrumental in preparing the Chinese leadership for decision-making for 2 years now. According to the findings of the American secret services, the rate of agreement between the recommendations of the supercomputer and the actual decisions of the Politburo was initially only 30 percent. In the meantime, however, it has reached 97 percent. All attempts by the Western powers to gain access to the supercomputer have so far been in vain. Since the Trump administration, the open conflict between the United States and China had led to an increasingly aggressive rupture, turning an initial "decoupling" into a fundamentally hostile separation. As a result, for the past 5 years, all components and algorithms in Chinese products and applications have been domestically produced. All Chinese companies and government institutions were forbidden to use hardware or software from non-Chinese sources under threat of sanction. The standards have already diverged so far apart that there is no longer any compatibility. So much for a possible vision from the year 2030: Of course nobody can know the future; at best plausible assumptions are possible. But as science fiction author William Gibson says, "The future is already there, it is just unequally distributed."

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