People need to accept that China is already the new world super power and that the west is fading. In many ways we only have ourselves to blame, in the UK we closed most of the coal mines because importing coal from China was seen as cheaper. At least they made the figures look that way! Today if you want a good product produced cheaply the first place to look is China. Slowly we are becoming dependent on China, and strong trade links with the west can only provide a positive future.
True, apart from the fact that products are built to break these days; engineers study built in obsollescance at university. You cannot buy a TV that will still work in 10 years - because if you did there's a fear that you would never buy a new TV.
Hey everyone,
What are your views on the rise of China? Can in grow peacfully?
Here's an article with a little bit of information and a positive outlook:
There's a new Red Scare. But is China really so scary?
My personal views are that China will try to be a regional power, and will create a Chinese version of the Monroe doctrine. The US is/will try to prevent that by containing it within countries like Japan, India and Russia.
Tensions will rise and I think militairy rivalry will be inevitable, sooner or later China will want to have the border issues with Japan, or the sovereign status of Taiwan settled and the US will disagree. As a world power, the US would not want to have a competitor.
china is indeed a rising threat. the worst in the world. The world needs to unite to deal with her. Preferably not by war though.
I think one of the major issues both for the Chinese themselves and in terms of international relations is the fact that in 10-15 years because of the one ***** policy their population will be so skewed in one direction that you're going to have a lot of frustrated young men kicking around the place and who knows what kind of pressures that kind of population will have on a nations economy, let alone what happens if the majority of those men join the military. A couple hundred million or so strong military really isn't something the US and its neighbours in particular wants to be dealing with. China of course is never going to start a war with the US I think this much is certain but in terms of its dominance in the region their power will only increase as far as I can see.
Economically it's somewhat different, for all of those people to now scoff at the thought of China calling in US debt really haven't thought that situation through entirely. Firstly the debt is in US dollars, as soon as those debts are called in the value of the dollar would decrease exponentially levelling the debt almost worthless and systematically destroying every western economy in the process. No, I don't think China ever expects to actually get those debts back in terms of monetary funds, they'll use them for trade purposes and as we've seen in recent years they'll put that power to good use.
He's got a spot on point. The fact that there are a LOT of single women in Russia (women by far outnumber men there) could lead to either a peaceful or horrible solution to this problem... But I feel sorry for any chinese man expecting a submissive and dutiful wife who marries a Russian woman! :rofl:
china's economic power must, of course, be destroyed.
Asked in a Washington Post-ABC News poll this month whether this century would be more of an "American century" or more of a "Chinese century," many Americans across the country chose China."
Surprising
Recent reports about how China is threatening to take the lead in scientific research seem to ignore the serious problems it is facing with plagiarism and faked results.
Not so surprising. chinese seem unable to do anything but copy. For this I blame their culture; they're so bound up with respecting the old, so respectful of the wishes of the older people that dynamic new ideas either take longer to come through, or do not come through at all.
some experts, such as Kenneth Lieberthal, a former senior director for Asia at the National Security Council and a man who has taught us a lot about China, say using China's green-tech rise as an excuse to whip America into shape isn't such a bad idea, because the result -- a cleaner environment or a more high-tech workforce -- makes a lot of sense.
:thumbsup:
some Chinese neoconservatives achieved rock-star popularity there for promoting the notion that the United States was conspiring to contain China, militarily and economically.
They're correct. And it's the right thing to do; china must be stopped before they pull a Hitler and start WW3.[/QUOTE]
the United States does not need a bogeyman on its tail to get moving.
Wrong. VERY VERY WRONG.
WW2: us intervenes only because of the fear of facing a united Europe; a political and military *** aimed straight at them.
Vietnam: Only when it is shown that fat, heavy fighters like the F4 just can't cut it in a real fight is the decision to make lightweight fighters for usaf taken. But after that when they've never faced a skilled air *****? Planes get fatter - F35.
SO WRONG! Have you ever met any chinese people? We all know that there are a shedload of chinese immigrants living in our countries - but you NEVER meet them socially! They hang around only with other chinese. They don't integrate. I've seen it in England, Russia, Greece and Switzerland. It's known in France. And YOU know it happens in your country however much you may try to deny it.
So what we have here is a race quite happy to sterilise it's own people, which clearly regards other races as subhuman and not worthy of association. What could possibly be wrong with letting them become a world power?
But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today
OK, who wrote this? I'm gonna track down the source and look for signs of bias.
Want to resuscitate the F-22 fighter jet? No better country than China to invoke as the menace of the future.
And what's really sad is that the F22 doesn't make sense under ANY circumstance.
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