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.
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.
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.
I am pretty sure that most Chinese speak better English than he speaks Chinese. Or French. Or German.
Or English, if it comes to that.
Good advice for Arroyo, tell her people to start learning Chinese.
