Posted on 12/30/2007 11:56:06 AM PST by Parmenio
Third-world countries are uniformly cheap when it comes to the price of good body servants.
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Hunh? It’s virtually impossible to find a spot in the US that’s inaccessible to electricity -
Sure... That's why just our GDP growth in the last 6 is more than TWICE the official exchange rate GDP of China, or THREE times the total exports of China.
Sources:
The increase in our economy alone in the last 6 years is larger than the Chinese economy. We export more than they do. We have an economy that's much larger than China's, and is maintaining that lead.
Never mind the facts, it's all GLOOM AND DOOM!
“40 million people” would be only about 3% of the population. I’m sure the number without electricity is more like 400 million
Beijing and Shanghai are truly amazing cities, but as you get to their second tier cities like Xian and Guillan you start to see middle class mafia, beyond that it’s poverty, slums and Communism in it’s full glory.
I don’t know why, but it reminded me of Russia 10 years before it’s demise.
Assuming you mean within 50% (meaning 0.67 to 1.5 ratios of exports to imports), that list would be:
Pretty empty list there... In actuality, according to the CIA Factbook, we exported $50 billion worth of goods to China in 2006, and we imported $220 billion.
Japan? Exported $50 billion, imported $180 billion.
Mexico? Exported $120 billion, imported $180 billion.
Canada? Exported $220 billion, imported $350 billion.
Germany? Exported $40 billion, imported $75 billion.
So based upon the above, we shouldn't have MFN with anyone. Heck, China's about on par with Japan in terms of exports/imports, so neither should get MFN?
We don't have parity with any country - we're a net consumer of durable goods, compared to everyone. But we're still the largest exporter on the planet, equalling the entire EU in terms of exports. And our economy accounts for a quarter of the entire world.
MFN trade status should be used to our advantage - when we can maximize what we get for our dollars. Restricting trade to countries closer to parity - Germany, Canada - means we can buy more expensive goods, tools, and services which will hamper our own economy more than letting businesses get their supplies/products at the lowest cost.
Question:
Where do you get your information about China? Because I live a third of my life over there, run a factory there, do business there and I can assure you your “facts” have as much reality as John F’n Kerry’s claims that he earned his Purple Hearts...
Good analogy. I visited the Soviet Union numerous times between 1975 to 1987. We used to joke in the State Department that the Soviet Union was either the most underdeveloped developed country or the most developed underdeveloped country in the world. It was quite apparent looking at the shoddy construction, poor infrastructure, and the communist way of administration that the Soviets were only a military threat, and a hollow one at that given their performance in Afghanistan.
Excluding HK, I have only been to China [Beijing] once, but I was far from impressed. It did resemble the Soviet Union, only worse.
The gender gap will inflate Chinas’ military and guaranee an expansionist foreign policy. CHina seems to have taken complete possession of the Spratley and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, for instance. The relative overproduction of males will insure that the Taiwan threats continue to ratchet up.
That is what is happening to some extent right now as the dollar is inflated by Washington. We are welshing on debt by making the dollars with which we repay past debt smaller. We still call them “dollars” but they are worth rather less than the “dollars” that were originally borrowed.
Not quite. Since China has a population of about 1.2 billion, that would be one-third of the population.
You must be joking.
CNN is correct. Chinese Commies are killing us all over the place, and nobody seems to realize it because John Wu has not put it on cellulose yet.
Besides all that, some people read faster than others. I am such an one. (I realize that I'll likely regret posting that, but it is still true.)
I highly doubt even one out of 1000 Americans have no access to electricity.
Your main point is correct, but you are overstating things. It turns out that China has plenty of problems of its own, and it’s not the omnipotent Socialist paradise it’s portrayed as by so much of the MSM.
Now, if Hillary Clinton is elected President, look for China to make more gains against the U.S., just as they did when Bill Clinton was President.
Far too many lack faith in America and our ability to adapt and excel. They were crying about jobs in the buggy whip industry back in the day.
It turns out that China is as capable of short-sightedness as the United States.
Look what its overly stringent birth control policies are bringing.
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