China’s Leader, Seeking to Build Its Muscle, Pushes Overhaul of the Military

New York Times ^ | May 24 2014 | JANE PERLEZ and CHRIS BUCKLEY

[Cringing Negativism Network]

BEIJING — Driven by ambitions to make China a great power, President Xi Jinping is staking his political authority on a huge task: overhauling the Chinese military, which is still largely organized as it was when a million peasant soldiers mustered under Mao Zedong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/world/asia/chinas-leader-seeking-to-build-its-muscle-pushes-overhaul-of-the-military.html?src=twr&_r=0

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Keep on buying, all of our goods from China.

Let's review quickly:

In 2013 America bought 440 billion dollars of imports from China.

In 2013 America sold 122 billion dollars of exports to China.

Just saying.

[JoeFromSidney]

they sealed their doom with their one-child policy. They won't have the manpower to become a "great power."

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I believe they ended the “one child policy” last year.

Just saying.

[Daus]

Only slight ammended... You can now have a second kid if you are an only child.