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The future is spelled C-H-I-N-A We're awash with books on China -- minutes after finishing one, you're hungry for another MARK STEYN Arthur Henry Ward was a penniless young Irishman living in lodgings in south London when he bought a planchette (or Ouija) board to cheer himself up. That night -- 1912 or thereabouts -- he asked the planchette in what direction he would find success. It spelled out the word C-H-I-N-A-M-A-N. Hmm. What could that possibly mean? "We asked it again," he recalled, "and still the answer was definitely and unmistakenly 'Chinaman.' I couldn't understand it at all for...

ndia will emerge as the second largest economy along with US by 2050, with China taking the number one slot. In a report ‘‘The World in 2050’’, global consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) projected that in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), India will witness the highest growth of 5.2% in 2005-50 against 3.9% of China and Brazil and 2.4% of Russia. US will grow at 2.4% during this period, while UK, France, Germany and Japan will grow at 2.4%, 2.2%, 1.8% and 1.6% respectively. This report is more or less in same line with BRIC report of Goldman Sachs.

China's drive to be an imperialist nation started in 1949, when it has occupied by force Tibet and Eastern Turkistan. Later, after a few years, it absorbed Manchuria and Mongolia as gifts from Stalin. However, that has not stopped the appetite of China. In 1962, China invaded India. China occupies about 10 per cent of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1964, China invaded the USSR, in 1979 Vietnam. It has already taken over the Spartley Island, a potentially rich island with petroleum and natural gas, which belongs to Vietnam. Now it is preparing for the invasion of Taiwan....