Posted on 09/10/2004 5:52:23 PM PDT by Flavius
Arroyo ... selling her country to the highest bidder, imo .. too bad ..
she falls into a trap of her own making and fails to provide strong leadership when her country needs it most.
Let's see... Wealth, innovation, and power are byproducts of individual liberty, limited government, and low taxation. So, obviously, the answer to the question is, "No, China is not replacing America."
The Phillipines will definitely get the short end of the stick in that relationship.
The sleeping dragon has awakened!
NO kidding. It's awakened because we've given it everything it's got. We've given them literally all of our technology, education, and cold hard cash. We've given them our income generating dynamo. Meanwhile, we're falling fast as a nation. Real wages have plummeted, our population growth..illegal..is out of control and our costs are running away with us. We'll be a third world nation in 20 years, they'll be the only Superpower thanks to the Free Traitors.
China wants the Spratlys, right? And Arroyo is accepting blood money from the Chinese - money made from prison labor, the sale of body parts, etc.
Come and get it.
It's a funny old world, when we put all our foreign policy attention on two Asian countries, Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have Asians blow us off as not paying them enough attention.
I like what Arnold said at the convention. Doomsayers 20 years ago were predicting japan and Germany were going to be the new worlds superpowers. They did not because they have stifling gov'ts and the people are limted.
As long as America people are free(and I mean free) we will always beat China.
Cheer Up! Maybe the Chinese or Indian superpowers of the future will keep the good ol' USA around like the European powers kept the Spanish American empire, or later the Ottoman empire, hanging on...administrative convienences to collect taxes and pay off the huge debts owed to forgieners.
What some people fail to realize is than China is still a Communist country, at least more or less, and as long as that is the fact, it will never be a market or true market economy. In fact, isn't it true that at least 50% of the Chinese economy is still state-owned? Maybe more depending on your definition of 'state-owned'.
With the one-child policy, China will be stuck with a lot of old people. All the young people will be working hard to support their parents (unless China institutes a new one-parent policy!). There won't be a surplus of labor for military adventurism.
Then again, due to selective abortions and infanticide, there will be many more young men than young women, which will be a destabilizing factor. Unless they embrace freedom, however, or a Clinton regains the White House, they're not going to be able to keep up with us economically or militarily.
You are VERY wrong with that statement.
There is a big difference between communists in the old Soviet Union and communists in China.
The Soviet Union Union was multi-cultural and they loved their vodka.
China is made up of orientals. Orientals have a tremendous work ethic. China is homogenous. China will be the only superpower at some point in the future.
Unlike the United States, they guard their borders, they guard their culture, they guard their sovereignty, and they will not allow Spanish kids to be taught in Spanish in Chinese schools.
Ooooops..........I forgot. Like I said, they guard their culture and sovereignty. China will crush the United States some day.
"You are VERY wrong with that statement."
I doubt it.
"There is a big difference between communists in the old Soviet Union and communists in China."
Actually, jdluntjr said the following about China: "China is a superpower, but eclipse the United States, not in our lifetimes. 1. They don't have a truly free market economy - still essentially socialist. 2. They have no political liberties. Essentially they have a system ripe for corruption. Just like the soviets. As for military superpower. They have no blue water navy to speak of. They got lots of troops, but to get to most points of interest, they need to move them and materials on ships. Our Navy could take their 100million man army to the bottom of the ocean in a day if they decide to come out and play with us. Their air power is not as good as the Russians, and we see where those battles come. They do have nuclear weapons and ICBMs, but not nearly as many as we do and not as precise. We could smoke'm good. Their technology is derived either from the Russians or us (thanks Bill Clinton). Even their man in space rode on a space capsule that was a Soyuz ripoff. They didn't figure it all out for themselves....China has problems of their own. The church in China is growing powerful. If we are ever eclipsed by the Chinese, it wont be the Communist government in control. It will be Christians with God's blessings."
"The Soviet Union Union was multi-cultural and they loved their vodka.
China is made up of orientals. Orientals have a tremendous work ethic. China is homogenous. China will be the only superpower at some point in the future."
Pure nonsense. WHile Han Chinese are indeed the majority, there are still quite a few ethnic minorities...ever hear of the Uighurs or the TIbetans?
"China will crush the United States some day."
Not too likely. Besides, you never answered my statement that the Chinese economy is still at least 50% state-owned. When I say market economy, I mean a capitalist one specifically. It seems that you consider a market economy to be a successful one, regardless of whether or not it's capitalist.
What I meant to say is that as long as China is still a Communist country, it will never be truly Capitalist in it's economy. It's still basically socialist, at least more or less.
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