Posted on 07/18/2013 5:11:06 AM PDT by lbryce
SHANGHAI—People in the U.S. and China view each other with increasing suspicion, and many others around the world see the U.S. losing its place to China as the leading economic and political power, a new public opinion poll shows.
According to a survey of around 38,000 people in 39 countries released on Thursday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center, majorities or pluralities in 23 of the nations surveyed said China either has replaced or eventually will oust the U.S. as the world's top superpower. The Chinese don't question their nation's eventual dominance, but Americans are split on the question, the poll found.
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If other countries want to look to China as their leader then don’t come crying to us when China turns on them, sucks them dry, and discards them.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the ChiComs can at least express a coherent policy. Which is the total opposite of Barry.
At the local level the US data shows strength, but at the macro level China has $ 2,600,000,000 in foreign exchange to buy things while the US can only muster $ 150,000,000 in foreign reserves. China is financially strong because US corporations betray their country for profits. How long do you think our country can last if we allow traitors exist like this?
That is not just my “opinion”:
Right, it's your opinion and other people's opinion too; and while having an opinion is everyone's right it doesn't change what is. Understand that I'm not arguing about who's exporting the most, I'm saying that exports can be measured in say, dollar volume per year, and then compared. In business opinions don't matter, actual money on the table does.
Right.
I agree. And America is losing.
We need manufacturing back again.
Stop giving American manufacturing to China.
That is my point. How is it, America is making China into the world’s superpower?
Wake up people.
Say this about China, most people there have a good work ethic, and want to work and better themselves - while in North America there’s a whole bunch of people with the lazy give-me attitude of Rachel Jeantel.
Yikes.
Who’s that man standing in front of President Jarrett?
Obama’s objective is to tear down America.
Satan has no better tool.
Mission accomplished.
Yes, anyone who believes the Chinese growth or GDP numbers is a fool.
At the rate we’re going, we’re going to be behind the Ivory Coast, when Obama is done.
There are no “US Corporations”, they are international entities who have no loyalty to any nation.
Majority of the US corporations have American CEO’s/Execs/Senior Staffs. Let us not deflect and blame foreignors on this one. The ones that transferred technology to China were lead by American born, American educated and raised people.
This is an excellent point. If Americans as a whole were to become less divided and start behaving more in the interest of their own people, we have a lot of resources to draw from and rebuild from. It will require a significant cultural shift though. Less of this “citizen of the world” crap. You can be plain-old humane and still be a patriotic American, which is the general model that people on this board operate under I believe.
Who’s that man standing in front of President Jarrett?
Which one?
WW2 generation created executives who use to be officers on the battlefield who worked with NCO and enlisted men who are now his foremen and workers. The exec knows from battlefield experience that he needs these men to carry out his objectives, and in return takes care of them. See the movie “Best Years of Our Lives”, old black and white movie that covers life in America as the WW2 soldiers return, and the sense of care the vets who form upper society had for the lower majority. Workers were people, and employers were leaders. Today Harvard and Yale graduate business leaders and thinkers who see workers as commodities to be used and discarded. Condoms have more respect then workers. As far as the new crop of business leaders feel, unemployed Americans are a problem for the taxpayers. Low paying H-1B and illegal immigrants is the key to business sucess along with offshoring jobs. Offer these bastards a tax break to stay. What a joke. One city learned that the corporations took the lower tax rate/savings and used it to develop and train factories in China. GM is producing jobs in Mexico with US tax bailout money!!!!
Obama isn’t an idiot. He knows quite well what he is doing.
Won't happen. For all its obvious benefits, the painful drawback of capitalism is that it has no sense of nationalism.
Companies go wherever they can make the most profit, even if that means cutting locals jobs and propping up American strategic rivals. Many manufacturers will prefer to pay Chinese workers $2/hr than pay Americans even minimum wage. Workers of the developed world simply cannot compete with slave wages, nor should we want them to.
It's the same reason why big business in the West tend to be supporters of mass immigration. The more low-grade workers there are from abroad, the easier it is to drive down wages.
I'm not in fabour of a Marxist command economy, but we have to be honest as to why manufacturing jobs aren't coming back: there's simply too much money to be made in sending them offshore and keeping them there.
Exactly.
But there was little the public could do about it other than express a willingness to "compete" by working for third-world wages.
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