[Cronos]

Japan is a dying power -- as is Russia. They are strong now, but as per statistics by 2050 their populations will have halved. What then? China is willing to wait.

[chilepepper]

Well, we will still be around, except we will be called Los Estados Unidos de America, and consist of a lot of other states, mostly Mexican and a few non-French Canadian provinces...

Like it or not, the hispanization of the US is on its way, and it is not entirely bad... much better than the Islamic Republic of the Europpean States, although I'm not sure how you say that in Arabic...

[Poohbah]

Japan is a dying power -- as is Russia. They are strong now, but as per statistics by 2050 their populations will have halved. What then? China is willing to wait.

By that time, the social pathologies of Communism and one-child-per-family will kick off the world's first nuclear civil war.