[lelio]

The wheel of global power has been moving steadily westward over the centuries.

I agree. Just like Britain saw the US take over its work and eventually shrank down to a socialist government with a lot of people on the dole, the US is going to see the same thing happen with jobs going to India and China.

Its going to be interesting in 8 years or so when China's the world's producer of everything and they start throwing their weight around. It might happen sooner as they need to import a lot of their energy as their coal is subpar. Perhaps they'll invade a middle eastern country for their oil.

[Cronos]

Perhaps they'll invade a middle eastern country for their oil.

Not really, too far, the only way they could do that is by sea and I doubt the Australians or Indians would be too please to see the Chinese navy in the Indian Ocean. They may try to invade a Central Asian nation, but the Turkic people there can kick a** and the Russians and Indians won't sit back and do nothing.