Fearing China

This should be no surprise, or news, to anyone since for the past 30 years American business people and politicians have done everything they could to make China a super power. China should put Bush/Clinton/Bush on a Chinese Mt. Rushmore over there. Yet the super power status of China is not a given. There are extraordinary domestic problems within China while at least 800 million people live in poverty or very difficult financial situations. They will have to tackle enourmous social problems the world has never seen and because they are closed soceity communists they'll have to figure that out all on their own. More importantly, China has not yet embraced freedom. Freedom isn't just a hippy word about "peace, man". Freedom encourages and protects intellectual property and drives new inventions and those are key to leading the world. In all honestly China fails in these two key categories. China is still communist. You simply can't ignore that. They honestly have failed at manufacturing too and the world is not so eager anymore to run to China as THE place to do business. It's good to see many Chinese enjoying a good quality of life but the honest truth is very very few Chinese people have the same quality of life as free nations. It's not just about impressive infrastructure. It's about intangibles and so far China really hasn't had a break out thing that has impressed the world. It really isn't a big deal that a country with 1.3 billion people has built out a modern society in many places. It's just catching up with the rest of the world, is all that is. They need to show the world some impressive things the world has never seen before, before anyone really accepts them as a "wow" nation. I have no doubt they could be the next Soviet Union but I just don't see them becoming the next America or even close to it from top to bottom.

To wavygravy ;
Still we`re in the third world,we`re having critical humanright problem. but We`re resoving those problems grandually.Do you really think Bad human right records are the main obstacles preventing us from going to the prosperity? Stop quoting human right records again, you`re really boring ,stop those cliche,you`re brain washed by your media that tend to using double standards to measure the world, saddle your own ideology to the rest of the world.DId this article make you jittery and uncomfortable,all of those feeling came from your inner heart, your inner perception.You are not willing the other people who can live better life thant you through diligent work. you`re jealous of our progress and accomplishments in many aspects.

we have to show China that who is the boss ?

davidwayneosedach that was funny " 21st century = China " . I would say China 21st century is slave for US. Most of the greatest companys and factorys in China are own by American. And we works them to dearth.

Share power? There is no sharing of power. China is in total control. They own us and our debt. We have outsourced our industrial base to them and with cap and trade the rest will be there shortly. Our role as the world's eminent power is over. It isn't up for debate. We are in our death throes, the American dream has run it's course. It didn't have to be that way, the seeds were sowed during the Clinton administration with their China trade initiative. Could we reverse it? Yes, but not with the radical environmental policies of the democrats or the free trade policies of both parties.

China was made up economicallyby the U.S. globalists. This indicates that China has a moral obligation to repay this debt, economically. If China wants to go it alone, every effort must be made to keep China in check. This is so above all things because, after all, China is a Communist country! America has no history of propping up Communism! It's against our values, just as Taliban is! Our ambassador must lay out the blueprint of future relations with China on the basis that I have just described.

screw china

The reason China is such an economic power is that greedy U.S. businesses offshored their production in the name of higher profits and bigger bonuses for executives. As China has little or no respect for intellectual property, this meant transferring a vast amount of U.S. technology and manufacturing techniques to the Chinese for essentially nothing. And our corrupt and stupid political leaders accepted bribes from these corporations, in the form of campaign contributions, to sit idly by and let it happen.

lovedeedee, you could not be more wrong. the Forefathers of the USA were very much Catholic and the original settlers were also very religious. They left Europe to get away from the government imposed singular religion so they could worship how ever they wanted. The USA is very much and has always been a Judo-Christian country, just because you are completely ignorant does not change that fact. when our forefathers wrote the Constitution and our other founding documents they made sure to put in that the government will not push a religion onto its' people which is the meaning of 'freedom of religion'. But that did not change the fact that America is a judo-christian society. So you are wrong again, get over it.