China's superfast economic development is exciting
 

Here's a great story:

The American Dream is passé, the future is all about China.

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Good for him being able to do that in a communist country thats awesome.

Bill Gates says China has created a brand-new form of capitalism

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...129783/1/.html

:thumbsup

America's downfall......China.

China could end up being a key cause of WWIII.

uh....why?

One country's success doesn't require another country's downfall.

It could, but I doubt it.

Try getting your shit up and running there. Good luck, you need it!

Go tell that to Dubya.

I would, but I don't think he'd understand me. The problem is that I speak english. :winkwink:

Quite true, there are two ways to look at it.

#1 Free trade empowers China and thus they could end up with the world's most powerful military.

or

#2 Free trade is the greatest deterant of war. (Bad economy = breeding ground for war, just look at Germany before the rise of Hitler.)

For situations like this there is no easy answer. Is World War III inevitable... perhaps.

Yes, I have been thinking the same thing.

Yep, it's the chinese dream.

Is China really communist?

That's loaded question.

lmao....

Everyone said the same thing about Japan in the 80's. China will crash and burn like Japan, it's only a matter of time.

"crash and burn like Japan"

WTF are you talking about? You win the most useless post award for this thread so far.

Wouldn't an Bush led invasion of N. Korea, or Cuba or Iran be a little more likely?

I don't think those would cause a world war.

China is definitely the next to rise. There's no denying it. I'm not happy about it though... I really don't want to learn Chinese and the food over there is creepy.

true, wouldn't be a WW. but i guess any nuclear action (say, by some insecure tyrant in N.Korea) would pretty much effect everyone.

very strong growth sector and it will be for years

There would need to be significant opposing sides. Last time I checked, North Korea and Iran don't have many friends, and Cuba isn't even on the radar of potential targets in the near future.

these countries differ a lot.