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Clinton: China or Europe Will Replace U.S. as Top Power
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/02/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 05/02/2003 3:22:21 PM PDT by 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."

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

China/Taiwan
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KEYWORDS: china; clinton; eu; superpower; treason
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To: kattracks
Actually it will be India. This will occur in the year 2121.
241 posted on 05/03/2003 8:57:17 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: patriciaruth
Swine Flu is different. But the originating flu came from China. There is a woman, cannot recall her name but she was just on a local talk show the other day because of SARS. She wrote a book about viruses and it was her statement. She said all and she repeated ALL contagious viruses in the last 200 years originated in China.
242 posted on 05/03/2003 9:19:33 PM PDT by Michael121
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To: laredo44
Blabbermouth? Where did that come from?
243 posted on 05/04/2003 6:25:32 AM PDT by abclily
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To: laredo44
Reports of Billy Blythe's superior intelligence are based on his photographic memory. He can read lines and regurgitate them ad nauseum. Other than that he is an idiot.
244 posted on 05/04/2003 6:28:31 AM PDT by abclily
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To: NormsRevenge; ninenot; flamefront; Sawdring; Enemy Of The State; Jeff Head; brat; dalereed; ...
fyi
245 posted on 05/05/2003 3:41:33 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Clinton ... bring it on you traitorous Chicomm sympathizing bastard.
246 posted on 05/05/2003 4:18:08 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: kattracks
Should we be suprised that Billy has more faith in a communist nation or a band of socialist nations than he does in the American system?!?! The guy is (and always was) an America hating left wing maggot.
247 posted on 05/05/2003 4:21:45 PM PDT by Constitutional Patriot
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To: breakem; kattracks; Tailgunner Joe; Grampa Dave
It will only be theirs if we continue to abjectly fund their economic and military growth with our senseless complete offshore outsourcing and huge trade imbalance.

They are doing it with our dollars and we are fools if we do not treat them, a complete ideological enemy, the way Reagan treatred the Soviet Union. His challenge to them bankrupted them and led to their fall. The same needs to happen to China IMHO.

248 posted on 05/05/2003 4:38:37 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: kattracks
replace the United States as the world's number one power

Hillary's presidential campaign pledge.

249 posted on 05/05/2003 5:15:03 PM PDT by flamefront (To the victor go the oils. No oil or oil-money for islamofascist bioweapon production.)
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To: Jeff Head; MadIvan; Grampa Dave; PhiKapMom; TLBSHOW; maui_hawaii
Clinton predicts takeover by his turd world comrades.

Flush the toilet and move on.

250 posted on 05/05/2003 9:15:10 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
This is great!
251 posted on 05/05/2003 9:17:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
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To: kattracks
"In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now," Clinton told the Washington Post

"And I've always done my best to see to that."


252 posted on 05/05/2003 10:26:11 PM PDT by ppaul
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To: kattracks
Note the harmful effect that China's one child policy will have on future economic growth; Europe and Russia are already suffering because of excessively low reproduction rates. China will have to shrug off the chains of Communism to have any chance to match the USA economically and militarily within the next few decades. By doing so, they cease to be our enemy. China's Communist government is the only thing preventing a reuniting with Taiwan. No ChiComs, no separate "province", no problem with the USA. Speaking of shrugging off Communism, it wouldn't hurt to do that in the Homeland, either (/wishful thinking).
253 posted on 05/06/2003 12:23:13 AM PDT by WhaChuLookinAt (As a matter of fact, I DO put my pants on both legs at a time.)
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To: Cordova Belle
Why NewsMax? They did what no other media agency would do, and threw in the tidbit about the traitor giving China our best secrets. Methinks this is Limbacher's way of hinting at Clinton's treasonous activities - linking what he's saying now, which is part prediction based on his own knowledge of his betrayal and part wishful thinking, with what he's done. As an objective news source, I don't give NewsMax very high grades. But if they're biased, at least they lean towards the proper direction.
254 posted on 05/06/2003 12:23:19 AM PDT by WhaChuLookinAt (As a matter of fact, I DO put my pants on both legs at a time.)
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To: kattracks
So TRIM-EXPOTUS, does this explain why you sold out to them? You mighty POS...
255 posted on 05/06/2003 2:12:53 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution ("The only way evil triumphs is if good men do nothing" E. Burke)
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To: kattracks
Paul Wolfowitz, had already said it,in 2001, that China will be a Superpower within 25-50 years time. And Donald Rumsfeld had agreed with his assessment

Washington Times, Sept 2001. Interview with Wolfowitz.

US Deputy Secy of Defense said " China is almost certain to become a Superpower within the next quarter to half Century. And that is pretty fast, by Historical standards.."
And Secy of Defense, Rumsfeld agreed

This assessment is the culmination of all the studies done by the US DOD, Pentagon, CIA, US War College, etc. Where do you think Clinton got his evaluation reports from ?
256 posted on 05/06/2003 2:44:15 AM PDT by The Pheonix
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To: kattracks
""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."

257 posted on 05/06/2003 10:43:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy; kattracks; JohnHuang2; backhoe; HAL9000; piasa
ARMED SERVICES.house.gov: "Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and | Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Committees on International Relations and National Security United States House of Representatives June 17, 1998" (TESTIMONY SNIPPET: "When we look at the history of U.S. sanctions policy, we see a willingness to sanction China for missile proliferation in both the Bush Administration, which applied sanctions in 1991, and in the Clinton Administration, which applied sanctions in 1993. But in 1995, the Clinton Administration policy changes. China supplied the C-802s to Iran in 1995; China supplied other missile components to Iran and Pakistan in 1995 and has continued to supply up to the present time. And in 1996, the Administration refused to act on explicit findings by the intelligence community that the transfers occurred. Also in 1996, the Administration started transferring control over satellites exports from the State to the Commerce Department, insulating them from the application of missile sanction laws in the future. For some reason, the Administration decided in either 1995 or 1996 that missile sanctions would no longer be part of U.S. policy in dealing with China. Why did U.S. policy change? I don't know the answer to that question, but I urge the Committees to look into it. We do know the result of the policy change. It gave China a green light to proliferate. Our government's policy on sanctions has enabled Chinese satellite launch companies to sell missiles and missile components to Iran and Pakistan without fear of punishment. Thus, it may be that we are asking the wrong question about how our satellite export policy affects missile proliferation. Whether or not our satellite exports caused U.S. missile technology to go to China, they have made it easier for Chinese missile technology to go to Pakistan.")

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258 posted on 05/06/2003 10:47:12 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: breakem
"I believe it will be China's century unless they mismanage their economy."

Good fortune. Communist China will go the way of Nazi Germany before this quarter century is over.
259 posted on 05/07/2003 8:51:26 AM PDT by HighRoadToChina (Never Again!)
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To: kattracks
bttt
260 posted on 03/16/2004 3:54:19 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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