Clinton: China or Europe Will Replace U.S. as Top Power

NewsMax.com ^ | 5/02/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Ex-president Bill Clinton predicted this week that either Communist China, which helped bankroll his 1996 reelection campaign with hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions, or the European Union, would replace the United States as the world's number one power within the next 30 years.

"In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now," Clinton told the Washington Post in an interview from Mexico on Thursday. Saying the shift would occur within "a few decades," the ex-president cited the growth of China's economy and Europe's already formidable economy as factors that would doom continued U.S. supremacy.

Clinton said the question of whether China or Europe would replace the United States depended on how their respective governments invested in military might. While Europe's defense investment has been minimal since World War II, China now has the fastest growing military budget in the world.

In 1996, the Clinton administration approved the transfer to Beijing of key missile guidance technology which enabled China to hit most major U.S. cities with its intercontinental ballistic missile fleet.

Clinton offered his prediction to the Post in an attempt to clarify comments he made to an Australian audience in February, where he warned "This is a unique moment in U.S. history, a brief moment in history, when the U.S. has preeminent military, economic and political power. It won't last forever. This is just a period, a few decades this will last."

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[MissAmericanPie]

Both will be super powers given "Free Trade" and all that rubbish, in fact it's already begun. France and Germany floating the idea of leaving NATO in favor of building their own military might. The jobs fleeing the USofA, and every politician is on their knees to the Free Trade idol.

[My2Cents]

I think you're on to something. He's blazing the trail for Hillary's demonic platform, trying to work his old magic of blinding people of the truth.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

In his wildest socialist-communist dreams, perhaps.

Does he believe that "we" (as in we Americans, to exclude him) will be sitting idle while the "others" stride by? This is utter nonsense. "They" want us to lie down, to be sure. And we may comply, for a while. But in the end, our spirit will prevail, as our opposition is anti-human and thus have no spirit. Capitalism vs Socialism/Communism = no contest.

[AnimalLover]

I wish someone would shut Clintons big mouth. He must
think that he is still president and that people care
what he thinks! What has to happen to cause one's jaw
to be wired shut?
Between him and his mate(?) screeching like a fishwife,
I've got one big headache!!
And to think I used to be a nice, gentle, relaxed
person.

[Proud2BAmerican]

Only if they ditch communism. Fat chance of that.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

PLEEEEAAASE just go away, bill.

[Dark Wing]

It looks like Clinton is in that group of Democratic politicians that have lost faith in both American nationalism and exceptionalism.

[LibertyLight]

clinton and shrillery are of darkness and the truth comes forth as they long for power and attempt to undermine America.

May America always be guided by God's Light....

[RasterMaster]

Only with another Clinton at the helm of this country.

[voodoo economics worked]

We have not seen nothing yet wait to Hitlery becomes president.I wonder what hillary will give to the Red Chinese for a contribution to the DNC now.

[Reactionary]

It is interesting that The Stainmaker has devoted himself to knocking America off its perch these past few months.

One suspects that Clinton's egalitarian fanaticism extends to entire nations. As an ideological Marxist, the thought of political inequality evidently sends him into fits of Freudian projection.

[patriciaruth]

Reagan taught us to have faith in our system. No matter how formidable our opponents and competitors look, they have the inherent rot of socialism and communism eating their insides.

Naturally I wouldn't expect the traitor Clinton to understand this.

[backhoe]

"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"

Lest Americans ever forget why the clintons, and all their enablers need to be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:

Warning!

-The Clinton Files--

Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )

The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!

FOB and FOFOB... the clinton friend files

Hodgepodge O' Hillary

-The Atomic Genie- what we know about North Korea's Nuclear program--

-DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON --

[Claire Voyant]

His prediction WILL come true IF the HILDEBEAST is elected!!!

Just THINKING about her being Commander-in- Chief gives me the heaves!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Wishful thinking from a drug crazed old hippy!

[abclily]

Well said!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Bill Clinton is a moral leper. He should be made to wear a bell and cry out "unclean" every where he goes.

Regards,

[The Wizard]

But what so many miss is that chinese are not a free people, and as such will face rebellion and civil unrest until they are.

Until China becomes a democracy, they are doomed....Only a free people will have the determination needed to withstand the massive America military might, and we don't fight with free people....

What the liberals will never understand is that only a free people will ever have the might of the US, and those who are free don't represent a threat, they want to do business...

[finnman69]

[maui_hawaii]

I believe it will be China's century unless they mismanage their economy.

"China's century"... wishful...