[breakem]

I believe it will be China's century unless they mismanage their economy.

[kylaka]

Of course high taxation has nothing to do with limiting growth.

[My2Cents]

Clinton did his best to turn the USA into a 2nd-rate power.

If Bill Clinton were a super-hero, his name would be "The Stain."

[surely_you_jest]

Well, Clintoon certainly did his part to make sure that this happens.

[Dead Dog]

You know you are dealing with a pure socialist when they consider one's gain another's loss. A strong EU and China only mean better trading partners and a stronger US. They can't beat us without becoming us.

[Alouette]

Ex-president Bill Clinton

Who the hell cares what that obsolete, irrelevant moron says? He is wrong as he has always been.

[Pearls Before Swine]

China, maybe. EU....no.

[MadIvan]

Clinton has no idea what he is talking about. If demographics are destiny, the EU is in serious trouble - the birth rate is far less than the death rate. America doesn't have that problem.

As for China, the SARS incident has shown up the tremendous weaknesses in how it is governed. Making money there is rather like trying to pan for gold in the Klondike - it's risky, corrupt, and wild. Unless China moves to a more enlightened system of government, there is no chance they will be able to compete with America's stable laws and trading systems.

Regards, Ivan

[IncPen]

I don't see how China can prevail; it's rotting from the inside. It makes the old Soviet Union look positively futuristic

The EU, it seems to me, is made up of 100 warring cousins. Who in industrial Germany will countenance the lazy and spiteful French? The aims of all of Europe seem to me to be completely at odds, to the point that the EU is doomed.

[demlosers]

...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."

IMHO, The U.S. has been the pre-eminate power for over 100 years. Even when the U.S. and the rest of the world didn't know it.

[ThreePuttinDude]

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

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This will be the 2nd most memorable part of Bill Clintons legacy....
Thank God for that....

[arkfreepdom]

China is a paper tiger. They do not have a political system that is even close to stable. No one is going to challenge the US for many decades....if then.

[Cordova Belle]

I'nm not sure who to be madder at: Clinton for saying it, or NewsMax for repeating it.

[facedown]

...Europe's already formidable economy...

Huh? Compared to what? Antarctica?

[RightWhale]

That's it. It's over, Bill. You are not speaking for me, and as a motivational speaker, you are done. You are fired, go back to your van down by the river and wait for the next time we need our national spirit crushed.

[AmericaUnited]

Clinton and all his ilk will be on the ashheap of history and the US will still be the greatest!

[Irish Eyes]

Why do people continue to quote this has been? The only thing good is that they called him the EX President.

I just wish that clinton knew he was the EX presdent.

[AmusedBystander]

Every dog has their day in the sun. Why at one time or another just about every country on the planet has been the "leader" of the world. But the US won't give up the title in our lifetimes.

[Captain Shady]

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.

Maybe so. No nation stays on top of the heap forever.Who knows what the future holds? Maybe we'll be sneaking across the border into Mexico one day while wealthy Mexicans refer to us as "Dry-Backs".

[Centurion2000]

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.

Nostradamus he ain't ..... syphlitic disbarred scumbag searching for relevency he is.