Truth Detector (01-11-2019)
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Truth Detector (01-11-2019)
Well you’re wrong. The figures you’re citing are in GDP purchasing parity power and not nominal GDP and the figure that really counts is per capita GDP. In terms of nominal GDP the US represents 25% of the worlds economy. In nominal GDP the US is still $10 trillion annually ahead of China. Then consider that the US per capita GDP, the figure that really counts, is over 7 times greater than China.
Now let’s consider China and India’s populations where each country has more people living in abject poverty than the entire population of the US. This is a monumental problem for both countries which is a great drain on resources and has a huge potential for internal political instability if the problem isn’t addressed.
So yes China’s growing economy presents certain geopolitical issues for the US that will have to be addressed but the sky isn’t falling. Not by a long shot when you consider both internal economic, social and political problems dwarf those of the US.
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Mott the Hoople (01-11-2019)
I really think you don't get it, China is building or planning high-speed railways all over S E Asia. One of those will go through Laos, Thailand down to Singapore and another through Vietnam, the Eastern Seaboard and Bangkok. The infrastructure plans are truly enormous, what's the US doing? The Chinese are currently building 20 new nuclear reactors, expanding their military massively and rapidly overtaking the US and Japan in electronics. Maybe if you came here you'd see all those Chinese, living in abject poverty, swarming around all the shopping malls in Bangkok and Pattaya buying Rolex and Cartier watches? Oh and I ought to add that they have built 20 thousand kilometres of high-speed rail in China, they'll probably build another 10 thousand before California finishes theirs!
Another recent phenomena is Indian tourists, they are everywhere in Pattaya now. There is a huge Indian middle class, bigger than the entire US population and they've got money to burn. As for Russians, they are bloody everywhere Desh would have a blue arsed fit!! Plenty of bots here, mostly attached to really fit looking Russian blonde bints!
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 01-11-2019 at 09:33 AM.
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cancel2 2022 (01-11-2019), Mott the Hoople (01-11-2019)
In my opinion, we are under attack by China, a nationalistic ethno-state. They want World Dominance in economics and culture. They have disguised themselves as 'Global Partners', but in reality are practicing a mercantilist approach to National Power. We are under cyber-attack by the Chinese Military, stealing everything they can get their hands on. They provide their State owned businesses with the latest American (and others) technological breakthroughs and advancements. Americans point at their massive Military Machines, "Look at the Big Aircraft Carrier", while China develops the capabilities to render these things useless for pennies on the dollar.
China lands on Far Side of Moon, ... America has Government Shutdown. (Doesn't look too good for the Home Team)
dukkha (01-11-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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