Posted on 01/30/2015 10:46:03 PM PST by Steelfish
Going to be very difficult for them to overcome “Made in China”.
“It looks to me like they have worn out their big economic run though, like Japan in the 80’s or the oil sheiks in the 70’s, nothing goes on forever. They are not the low cost producer anymore, and new investment is heading elsewhere. The best and brightest are heading for the exits, if they can.”
Unfortunately when you have well over a billion people, you can afford to be a bit sloppy and still dominate the world. If they can get their per capita income to half of ours, that means their GNP is twice ours. And they’re still heading that way, just a bit slower now...but they’ll easily be there by 2049.
Demographics will destroy them. The average of the Chinese males keeps going up
I thought there was an “opening to China” in the 1880s and 1890s?
The Chinese have always been merchants, shop keepers and traders.
They also like to gamble...
Yes, but you know they are top heavy, their population is aging DRAMATICALLY, no one to support them in their elderly years. These Chinese in their 60s 70s 80s are not going to be “doing” much.
Commies always govern by crisis. Just like how the Bolsheviks re-banned homosexuality out of fear of a dwindling population, the People’s vanguard in Beijing will do something drastic.
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