Posted on 03/04/2007 12:35:05 AM PST by Lorianne
Finished going through the article. A bit critical of the Bush administration about Iraq and unilateralism, an interesting piece anyway.
The Deccan receives most of the Monsoon rainfall, BTW.
And huge cotton and rice farms are all over that plateau.
This is not a desert region like the Gobi/Tibetan plateau or the Mohave in the US.
Horse manure. The ONLY acceptable way is if the individual states/provinces of Mexico and/or Canada join the US as states UNDER OUR EXISTING CONSTITUTION--not some "New World Order" socialist bureaucracy.
Which, if you select the link and read the section, is what is being proposed (some of the Mexican states can be merged, and Ontario and Quebec could be split into more than one).
It's a non-starter.
China's birth rate is slightly lower than the US's and China's fertility rate is significantly lower than the US's. China's population growth rate is about 2/3 of the US.
It is important to note that these US rates are fueled by immigration rates while China's immigration rate is slightly negative.
OTOH, India's rate are exceptionally higher.
And as you've pointed out, India's chugging ahead in producing babies.
Along with the population growth data, market type or designation is important. Big emerging markets(BEMs) is a term rarely used anymore, since they have already emerged, so to speak. But it still applies.
Yet.
It will take time, but they are making the moves now and they are building the economic power and capability to support it for the long haul.
A visit to the shipyards at Dalian, Jiangnan, Huangpu, Wuhan, Huangdu, and many, many other naval shipyards will attest to this. The sheer amount of naval shipbuilding going on is phenominal, dwarfing what we are doing.
Thirteen major new classes of modern, major combatants are being worked on and procured at one time and integrated into their fleet. They have produced over 80 major new combatants in the last five years while we have produced 46. They have decommissioned none, while we have decommissioned 49 or 50, many of them with 10-15 years service life remaining in them.
...and what they are doing with their naval shpibuilding is also being mirrored in their air forces and the modernization of their land forces.
NWO v2.0
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