[Porterville]

What is more scary, 1 billion uneducated communist lead by a few semi-educated political dictators or nearly 300 million educated people who are led by representitives elected to serve the people???

China, can suck my BA11$

[RightWhale]

China's problem will be industrial power. Oil and natural gas mainly.

[Bonaparte]

This man gets it.

(No, I have no idea why he included Ming porcelain instead of the compass, another Chinese invention that changed the world.)

[observer5]

I wouldn't worry about a thing. The Chinese have already bought all people in D.C. that they need to dominate the world in few decades. Don't worry!

[KevinDavis]

We have a choice, either send humans to Mars to remain number one nation or send probes just and be number the choice is yours...

Space Ping! This is the space ping list! Let me know if you want on or off this list!

[bert]

The facts seem correct but the extrapolation is off the mark.

It seems equally likely that the Chicaps will at some point assimilate and over com the Chicoms. The results will be different.

Change in China is a greater threat to a declining Europe than to America or Asia.

[appeal2]

Having been to China, I can tell from personal experience that most young people want to escape the tyranny. I find it hard to believe that a society that does not encourage bringing out the best in its people will dominate.

[The Shootist]

"Mr. Heinlein said we would go to space, but the universe did not guarantee that the language spoken there would be English. The Chinese are building a space station. The United States is spending $87 billion to keep an army in Iraq." - Jerry Pournelle

I'd rather build the Space Station.

[fat city]

the capitalist coastal provinces of China grew in per capita GDP from $815 to $2,020

Why do I see a classic Marxist revolution by the have-nots of the interior happening here? Of course, maybe not, since the people of the people of the interior have a semi-prehistoric culture.

[Paulie]

"The world will be a very different, and far less comfortable place for us when China displaces the US as the world's greatest power, as seems inevitable by the middle of of this century.

I agree it 'seems inevitable'. But the future is extremely difficult to predict and a lot of things can happen to gum up the works for China, including their own foul ups. One distinct possibility is that America - the other sleeping giant - will rise to the occasion and put to rest the issue of who remains the sole superpower.

[irv]

A return to such global eminence by 2025 would simply confirm the Chinese in their belief that the period since 1820 has merely been an unfortunate blip.

Hmmmm. 22 years. How many of its own people can China murder in 22 years? They haven't had a good Cultural Revolution or Great Leap Forward in quite some time. They're due for a few years of self-immolation.

You see, this article ignores the fact that it's not the "hegemony of the English speaking peoples" that's kept China down. It's their own rulers that have done that.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

They're not ready for a real lunar base. Twenty years, minimum, and that is contingent on a lunar base showing value.

[B-Chan]

Sure, they’re in orbit now, and it’s an impressive accomplishment for which they deserve congratulations — but our guys were playing golf on the moon when China’s first astronaut was still running around the playground in his crotchless pajamas.

I’m not worried about the Chinese military/government space program, because we Americans are going into the space business, and business always moves faster than do government programs. By the time the government in Peking gets around to setting up the first lunar ping-pong tournament, we’ll have a privately-owned space railroad up and running, carrying freight and passengers into space for the price of a first-class ticket to Europe. The space railway will play the same role in the opening of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and planets that the transcontinental railroads played in the colonization of the American West. Once that space railway is built, the solar system will be ours.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Let us get Government out of Business and personal lives and put it back in the box it belongs in, and we would Bury the Chinese.

Our government is our own worst enemy, not the Chinese.