China

[Dr.Gibbs]

Here's an interesting read:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693580/site/newsweek/

[reefsurfer]

I thoght this was about the China army in BF2... :icon33:

[Psyche911]

I thoght this was about the China army in BF2... :icon33:

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You would!

[4g3nt_Smith]

Chinese People suck at dodgeball, as do the rest of the asian peoples. Fact. Just ask Kaziganthe.

[Massive Quasars]

I do hope there is a bloodless revolution that democratizes China as it becomes a world superpower.

[Pext]

the point is:

to become a superpower - and china certainly will become one - it has to be able to influence politics outside it's own country like the US currently do. and i dont see this happening without military intervention - like the US corrently do. and i don't see how the US would ever accept that.

i think as soon as china starts interfering with military power, the US will follow an agenda to make china look like the next incarnation of evil - and they will push the european union to go along with them. then it's on russia to decide on which side they are on.
economy wise the choice is not that obvious as the winner - may it be on diplomatic or military level - get's superiority over the worlds economy for at least the next 50 years.

china's relation to the middle east is a thing to take a closer look an.

[Tormentius]

I do hope there is a bloodless revolution that democratizes China as it becomes a world superpower.

Do you really think democracy would be viable in that size of society?

[Tormentius]

the point is:

to become a superpower - and china certainly will become one -

IMO it already is and has been for quite some time. They just haven't flexed their ecnonomic or military muscle yet.

[bitWISE]

And speaking of Venti Lattes, last week Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz noted on CNBC that in three years the company would probably have more cafes in China than in the United States.

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[R00k]

I'm seeing China grow very quickly, but it also seems to be self-destructing a little bit by not managing its growth (a small example is the yellow air that hung over Hong Kong and had everybody wearing breathing filters outdoors because all the new manufacturing plants have popped up without any real regulation).

Another thing holding them back is that their biggest moneymaker is exporting manufactured goods, but as they're growing, they're beginning to have to import materials to make them. Couple that with the fact that their manufacturing dominance relies on it being cost-effective in other countries to outsource, the fact that their economy is largely artificial due to being tied to the dollar, and the fact that with oil prices only going up from this point forward it will much harder to make money shipping cheap goods overseas, and China is going to have a hard time in the future.

Their economy currently relies on maintaining the status quo of the world's current hierarchy. And when the dollar starts to drop, China will drop right along with it.

[Don Carlos]

GG Rook

[Massive Quasars]

Do you really think democracy would be viable in that size of society?

Yes. India is also a pretty big country, and it has a working democracy.