<p>What's with all the people being scared of China becoming a superpower? Chinese economy grows on foreign investment - and bad relations with US means no foreign investment.
What else is there to say?</p>
<p>so is the US the only nation investing in China?....i think not</p>
<p>Europe is also a major investor, but it would side with US rather than China.
That's about it.</p>
<p>China needs a better legal system before it can really compete with the US.</p>
<p>Doesn't the trade deficit show that the U.S. needs China just as much (if not more) as China needs the U.S.?</p>
<p>One thing for sure is that CHinese students are much better than American ones. Just compare the average amount of time both watch TV, and the average amount of time that both use for homework. It's rather scary. No wonder more and more Chinese students enter American colleges.</p>
<p>That has more to do with the focus on education and scholarship than anything else.</p>
<p>gxing, am I saying anything that contrdicts that?
Americans don't focus on education, only a small number does.
In China, as far as I know, most people see education as a key to leading a better life.</p>
<p>subjecttochange, Western countries have the most noble prizes because they were the first countries to develop and hence being able of supporting costly research. It does not mean that they are smarter than anyone else, it was a matter of environment.</p>
<p>"Just look at how all the CEO's in America are white."</p>
<p>But look at how all the CEOs in Japan are asian!</p>
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<p>i have thus far seen absolutely no proof of this.</p>
<p>Look at per capita patent creation. They have a long way to go.</p>
<p>China is never going to become a superpower as long as its Communist government stays in power.</p>
<p>subject was vehemently condemning america in another thread, and now this? Either he/she is mentally ill or just likes to annoy people.</p>
<p>lmao ^^^^^^^</p>
<p>"China is never going to become a superpower as long as its Communist government stays in power."</p>
<p>Are you serious? The only reason why USSR was able to be a superpower is because it had an effective way of controlling it's society. If China will let go of totalitarianism, it will fall apart, enter decades of economic crisis, sky-high corruption, separarist movements and etc. If you suddenly stop controlling people who are used to government taking care of many aspects of their life, the majority of those people won't know how to protect themselves. Been there done that.</p>
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"China is never going to become a superpower as long as its Communist government stays in power."</p>
<p>Are you serious? The only reason why USSR was able to be a superpower is because it had an effective way of controlling it's society. If China will let go of totalitarianism, it will fall apart, enter decades of economic crisis, sky-high corruption, separarist movements and etc. If you suddenly stop controlling people who are used to government taking care of many aspects of their life, the majority of those people won't know how to protect themselves.
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<p>Haha, tell me that it isn't so. :)</p>
<p>Underestimating China's abilities and willingness to compete will be our downfall. China can't do this and China can't do that, China's not innovative, blah,blah, blah. Keep telling yourself that when your dollars funnel into China funding their system while weaking our own. </p>
<p>We can pretty much loosly agree that Regan ended the Soviets true superpower abilities by forcing them to spend themselves out of power because of arms buildup. We (US) broke them by besting them in developement and potential in our military capabilities. </p>
<p>The Chinese have just read our story and copied it (who says you have to innovate, when you can prirate?) changing the concept abit. They're using capitalism to beat us. They finance our war, undercut our labor, flood our markets with lower priced (and quality) goods and give a small few, fantastic profits to continue the deal. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, we lay off more and more people who go from tax payers to tax takers. Do you understand the difference? These people used to make an income, pay taxes either through income or consumption taxes and put money into the system. Now, many need government aide to sustain a basic standard of living. They no longer contribute to the tax base, even their consumption taxes are paid by the working public. </p>
<p>So what is China doing? by undercutting our labor forces and driving wages down, they are raising the government's responsibility to provide aid to more an more people. This increases the debt along with financing the war and provides fewer and fewer tax revenue generators for the goverment, which in turn borrows (from China :) ) making a deeper hole. </p>
<p>Who says the Chinese are stupid? They are beating us at our own game. They studied the rules and soon they will own all the expensive properties on the monopoly board. </p>
<p>This is not just a GW problem, I'm not going there. He didn't expand trade with China, just enhanced it for the few. BC expaned trade which benefited a certain retailer from his homestate. Please don't use the current rise in unemployment rates to counter. Taking away production jobs and replacing them with service sector (fast food) is not a same same trade off. Look at the personal income rates, they are going down. Spending power is going down and debt is going up as people are borrowing to maintain a lifestyle they can't afford. </p>
<p>Who says the Chinese are stupid? Not me. They've understood us enough to realize we have some who no longer value the middle class in America and as long as they get theirs, so what?</p>
<p>Well, at this point....they aren't innovative. That is a fact.</p>