Posted on 06/30/2007 12:37:30 PM PDT by hardback
Not only all that...
there’s the HUGE gender imbalance due to the one-child law.
Many many more males than females..
which complements Russia’s opposite problem...
sickly males.. many healthy females.
interesting no?
-—it has been asserted that Russian women in the border areas seek out Chinese husbands because they aen’t all drunks, too——
I will not willingly subsidize slavery.
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And it’s odd that China’s economy is held up as some kind of model for success.
While the economic policies of the United States are far from perfect, they are better than what’s happening in China.
This article sounds just like a conversation we had circa 2003 or so.
Problem is, the more you shop, the harder it is to find alternatives.
China won’t dare attack Russia, but the Russians may end up selling them territory, if their population continues to dwindle.
Population problems
Russian fertility rate: 1.17
Replacement fertility rate: 2.5
Percentage of Russian couples who are infertile: 15
Percentage of Russian women who have serious medical problems during pregnancy: 75
Russian male life expectancy, in years: 59
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/988723.stm
So what is China????? Businessmen see it as a future market, economists see it at a bubble, and the US military see it as the future enemy that will surpass us and kill us. It can’t be all three.
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A train wreck? Your title reminds me of those cute little Thomas & Friends toys that American children love so much.
Nominalism is more Powerful than Politics. China, though, wanted Tofler’s Third Wave without noticing that there is more to the package and it is not possible to implement only the superficial elements without the rest of the basis. They want Capitalism, but they haven’t adopted the rest of the Western constitution. So, their miracle is a sand castle and the tide is turning.
i think the folks who see China as a global menace are nuts.
Does anyone know anyone who is Chinese that exhibits anything that fits the profile of being from a nation bent on world domination?
All they want is to secure their energy supplies and not have other countries (like ours) be interfering with their affairs... i say WE need to back off them.. let Taiwan protect itself.
we’re in a different world now and the old arrangements no longer are to our benefit.. they are all liabities
“China won’t dare attack Russia, but the Russians may end up selling them territory, if their population continues to dwindle”
whatever works.
Your comment is about Chinese. The problem is Communist China, not the people themselves.
It probably does, but that doesn't make it untrue. China's economy is not natural. It's growth rate, exchange rate, savings rate, state control, etc... are all anomalies and are unsustainable. A couple decades ago people thought the Japanese economic model was superior and that Japan would soon overtake the US as the world's economic power. Then Japan's economy crashed and lingered in near depression for a decade.
I'm inclined to agree, as long as that means we look after our own (security) interests first, too. That means strong alliances with our friends in Asia, such as Japan, in spite of China's foot stomping.
I do think China assisting Cuba to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico borders on a provokation, though.
Does anyone know anyone who is American that wants the same? Ok, Hillary, but we are familiar with our tyrannical socialists.
I would submit that China, having a far greater population, would be more capable of producing someone who not only desired world conquest, but was capable of achieving it.
If Al Gore were President, we'd be at war now.
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