The New New World Order

Foreign Affairs ^ | March/April 2007 | Daniel W. Drezner

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Finished going through the article. A bit critical of the Bush administration about Iraq and unilateralism, an interesting piece anyway.

[CarrotAndStick]

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.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Enlarged United States of America."

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.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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).

[Wonder Warthog]

No way it'll work. The Canadians and the Mexicans are all socialists. They'll simply vote the USA into morphing into "them". I see no way to retain firearms/self-defense rights under such a scheme. The Canadians have swallowed the "no self-defense" hook, and the Mexicans lost it long ago.

It's a non-starter.

[Ben Ficklin]

"Americans ought to have more babies"

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.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Yep. China's birth rate is pretty low, due to the murderous one-child policy. However, they are starting from a much larger base than the United States. More children are being born in China each year than in the United States.

And as you've pointed out, India's chugging ahead in producing babies.

[Ben Ficklin]

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.

[uglybiker]

Their ability to project conventional military power in the manner that the U.S. can do is nonexistent.

Yet.

[Jeff Head]

They are already projecting military power. They are all over Africa, they are creating bases in Pakistan and have close relations with many of our most strident oponents. They are rapidly, very rapidly, building a blue water navy that they will not play with in their own bathtub.

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.

[NormsRevenge]

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