China - the future for classical music?

[Peter]

Interesting article which claims 'The numbers of young Chinese people studying piano and violin far exceed the population of Canada.'

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle14881218/

It's a different story though in Turkey!
http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-06-1...udience-turkey

[RobertH]

It is the sheer financial muscle of China that is now dominating the world. The real problem they have is quite simply the country is earning such unimaginable amounts of foreign currency that the Chinese government just doesn't know what to do with it all.
Now seems to be in the process of literally buying up large section of Africa, and the Middle East. I read only yesterday that China is going to redevelop Manchester airport and is putting in hundreds of millions of pounds to do it.