Don't confuse China's prosperity in terms of national numbers with the welfare of its people. Economic growth may translate into good living for certain people, particularly those living in its trade hub cities, but the fact is that China has been slowly sliding backward in terms of social and economic equity for the last decade. There are hundreds of millions in China who live in poverty.
Honestly, people overestimate China's economic standing. It's the fourth largest economy in the world, ranking well under 100 in terms of per capita GDP. Its banking system is antiquated and will likely slide into insolvency again without another bailout. If it were to slide into major crisis, not even China's massive cash reserves would bail it out. There's a very good chance it would fail, too, if they ever relaxed investment restrictions and allowed the Yuan to freely float.
Not only that, it's far from an efficient economy. Its capital efficiency rate is horrible. They have to spend way more money to get the same increase in GDP, in other words. Its capital allocation system is also horrible. They put money on the wrong things, a lot of the time.
Their trade policy has been their biggest boon, but it's their biggest potential weakness. They rely on an artificially devalued currency to boost their export standings, yet their overall trade surplus isn't even that high. They may run a high trade surplus with the US, but they run deficits with a lot of other countries. After all, they have few natural resources and their economy is primarily assembly manufacturing, importing components and shipping out assembled product.
China is a country which looks very powerful, very ambitious, and very capable if you look at its goals from afar. It seems like it has the potential to become the world's foremost power in a very short time. In reality, though, when you look at some of the things it does under a microscope, you see a lot of major weaknesses. That doesn't mean it won't continue to rise. It just has a long way to go.
New Rule: America must stop bragging that it's the greatest country on earth and start acting like it. Now, I know this is uncomfortable for the faith-over-facts crowd, but the greatness of a country can, to a large degree, be measured. Here are some numbers: Infant mortality rate, America ranks 48th in the world; overall health, 72nd; freedom of the press, 44; literacy, 55th. Do you realize there are 12-year-old kids in this country who can't spell the name of the teacher they're having sex with?
Now, America, I will admit, has done many great things: making the New World democratic comes to mind, the Marshall Plan, curing polio, beating Hitler, the deep-fried Twinkie. But what have we done for us lately? We're not the freest country. That would be Holland, where you can smoke hash in church, and Janet Jackson's nipple is on their flag.
And, sadly, we're no longer a country that can get things done, either. Not big things, like building a tunnel under Boston or running a war with competence. We had six years to fix the voting machines. Couldn't get that done. The FBI is just now getting email!
Prop 87 out here in California is about lessening our dependence on oil by using alternative fuels, and Bill Clinton comes on at the end of the ad and says, "If Brazil can do it, America can, too." Excuse me, since when did America have to buck itself up by saying we could catch up to Brazil?! We invented the airplane and the lightbulb. They invented the bikini wax, and now they're ahead?!
In most of the industrialized world, nearly everyone has health care. And hardly anyone doubts evolution. And, yes, having to live amid so many superstitious dimwits is also something that affects quality of life. It's why America isn't going to be the country that gets the inevitable patents in stem cell cures, because Jesus thinks it's too close to cloning!
Oh, and did I mention we owe China a trillion dollars? We owe everybody money. America is a debtor nation to Mexico! We're not on a bridge to the 21st century. We're on a bus to Atlantic City with a roll of quarters.
And this is why it bugs me that so many people talk like it's 1955 and we're still number one in everything. We're not. And I take no glee in saying this, because I love my country, and I wish we were. But when you're number 55 in this category and number 92 in that one, you look a little silly waving the big foam "Number One" finger.
As long as we believe being the greatest country in the world is a birthright, we'll keep coasting on the achievements of earlier generations and we'll keep losing the moral high ground. Because we may not be the biggest or the healthiest or the best educated. But we always did have one thing no other place did. We knew soccer was bull.
And we also had a little thing called the Bill of Rights. A great nation doesn't torture people or make them disappear without a trial. Bush keeps saying the terrorists hate us for our freedom. And he's working damn hard to see that pretty soon that won't be a problem.
The most important part of reading is reading between the lines.
Don't confuse China's prosperity in terms of national numbers with the welfare of its people. Economic growth may translate into good living for certain people, particularly those living in its trade hub cities, but the fact is that China has been slowly sliding backward in terms of social and economic equity for the last decade. There are hundreds of millions in China who live in poverty.
Honestly, people overestimate China's economic standing. It's the fourth largest economy in the world, ranking well under 100 in terms of per capita GDP. Its banking system is antiquated and will likely slide into insolvency again without another bailout. If it were to slide into major crisis, not even China's massive cash reserves would bail it out. There's a very good chance it would fail, too, if they ever relaxed investment restrictions and allowed the Yuan to freely float.
Not only that, it's far from an efficient economy. Its capital efficiency rate is horrible. They have to spend way more money to get the same increase in GDP, in other words. Its capital allocation system is also horrible. They put money on the wrong things, a lot of the time.
Their trade policy has been their biggest boon, but it's their biggest potential weakness. They rely on an artificially devalued currency to boost their export standings, yet their overall trade surplus isn't even that high. They may run a high trade surplus with the US, but they run deficits with a lot of other countries. After all, they have few natural resources and their economy is primarily assembly manufacturing, importing components and shipping out assembled product.
China is a country which looks very powerful, very ambitious, and very capable if you look at its goals from afar. It seems like it has the potential to become the world's foremost power in a very short time. In reality, though, when you look at some of the things it does under a microscope, you see a lot of major weaknesses. That doesn't mean it won't continue to rise. It just has a long way to go.
I agree.
They can't be as rich as the United States or any other Western European country because the government will be obligated to give too much to the one billion plus people in China. Being a still very communist state they are probably going to blow it, by spending too much on the military or by getting in a war with Russia or someone else and screwing themselves.
At the height of communism, the USSR and its communist allies controlled something comparable to 15 percent of the world's population. With those relatively large numbers communism crumbled, even where there was a softer socialist government. The communist/socialist state tends to mess up economic development.
In the early 1960s many thought that the Soviet Union would become the dominate economic force in the world, and subsequently the pre-emanate world leading superpower. In twenty years their impressive track on the way up was ruined. If they'd continued their success they had in the sixties, the Cold War would have gone on.
Communism/socialism will fail. The West will remain the leader.
Unless China becomes a democracy soon, it is my firm belief that they will ruin their economy. The PRC has accumulated much more debt than we were ever in and that they'll admit to.
China has been the pre-eminent world super power for at least 2-3 years already. Thier economic power usurped the USA in at least 3 major measures in 2003, including GDP per head, balance of trade and cash in the bank. USSR learned the hard way that you cant be a super power if you have no cash and America is flat broke. As for the military comment. LMFAO oufctrl..... China would spank the USA in a war so hard you wouldnt be able to sit down for a generation. Its just as well though that China doesnt have the same machinations of global domination that America does.
No, the only thing holding China back is America's ridiculously massive arsenal of nuclear weapons and other technologies. Do you know who REALLY has all of the WMD's?
America does and it wouldn't hesitate to use them if it were presented with a real threat.
America has labs full of biological weapons that could wipe out an entire continent and fusion/fission bombs to finish the job (of course it would be the infamous MAD situation).
Man power means jack nowadays.
This is a sequence of characters intended to produce some profound mental effect, but it has failed.
There has been a world economic revolution raging for almost 2 decades now, it has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty saved millions and millions of lives and is continuing to do so. Countries like America are driving it, and the people of China, for example, are reaping massive benefits from it.
You are confusing public relations and self-defence with charity.
Mr.Knowitall your post is heavily clouded by prejudice but i will bite.
The Chinese government has in recent years been using resources provided by Communism to focus on building roads, schools, etc. paving the way for democracy and capitalism. Corporate America has been and still is very optimistic about China (despite the recent stock market drop) and it's not because of cheap outsourced labor.
So you can sit there and fantasize about an American-Chinese war all you want but we are going to get along just fine.
Don't confuse China's prosperity in terms of national numbers with the welfare of its people. Economic growth may translate into good living for certain people, particularly those living in its trade hub cities, but the fact is that China has been slowly sliding backward in terms of social and economic equity for the last decade. There are hundreds of millions in China who live in poverty.
What are you talking about? No single country in the world, no single government in all of history has ever brought more people out of poverty than China has in the last 20 years.
China's wealth through it's socialist system has brought hundreds of thousands of it's citizens out of poverty.
There are hundreds of millions of Chinese who live in poverty, yes, but ten years ago, there was over a billion of them.
No other system of welfare has even approached these kinds of results. None have even come close.
Slowly sliding backwards in terms of social and economic equity for the last decade?
You haven't been paying attention mate. The Chinese stock market doubled in value last year.
600 million citizens have been raised above the poverty line in the last ten years. That is a number equivalent to the populations of Europe and America combined or a population the same size as Africa.
There has been a world economic revolution raging for almost 2 decades now, it has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty saved millions and millions of lives and is continuing to do so. Countries like America are driving it, and the people of China, for example, are reaping massive benefits from it.
You are confusing public relations and self-defence with charity.
No.
Public relations, self defence and charity have nothing to do with it. It's just greed, pure unadulterated greed.
Europe and America's greed mate. That's what's helping the worlds poor. Consumerism.
They make goods, we buy them. If they don't have any money to start production, we lend it to them. Globalisation.
Where they used to be starving, now loads of them have jobs and industry.
Yea..every country has its glorious moments, and time as a superpower... China (fall of the roman empire till mongol invasion)
Turks (from their indipendence from the mongols till the battle of lapanto)
The Dutch (from their independence from Spain till the combined invasion of France, England and the German city states, 3rd anglo-dutch war i think it was..)
The British (their supremacy over the dutch till WWI)
The americans (1914 till 1985)
Me (1985 till present)
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I'm not sure if you were joking, but I laughed pretty hard at that comment.
Originally posted by khanstruct Originally posted by Meon Yea..every country has its glorious moments, and time as a superpower... China (fall of the roman empire till mongol invasion) Turks (from their indipendence from the mongols till the battle of lapanto) The Dutch (from their independence from Spain till the combined invasion of France, England and the German city states, 3rd anglo-dutch war i think it was..) The British (their supremacy over the dutch till WWI) The americans (1914 till 1985) Me (1985 till present)
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure" I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
Originally posted by Kurush Honestly, people overestimate China's economic standing. It's the fourth largest economy in the world, ranking well under 100 in terms of per capita GDP. Its banking system is antiquated and will likely slide into insolvency again without another bailout. If it were to slide into major crisis, not even China's massive cash reserves would bail it out. There's a very good chance it would fail, too, if they ever relaxed investment restrictions and allowed the Yuan to freely float.
While the dollar value produced by the Chinese economy is 4th in the world, this is offset by the fact that prices are also much lower. China has the worlds second largest economy by GDP purchasing power, and should overtake the US in the number 1 spot within the next few years.
Originally posted by Meon Yea..every country has its glorious moments, and time as a superpower...
China (fall of the roman empire till mongol invasion)
Turks (from their indipendence from the mongols till the battle of lapanto)
The Dutch (from their independence from Spain till the combined invasion of France, England and the German city states, 3rd anglo-dutch war i think it was..)
The British (their supremacy over the dutch till WWI)
The americans (1914 till 1985)
Me (1985 till present)
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
Napoleon was a mediocre strategist with an inflated ego.
Yes, I was kidding. I was stating that I was part french just to point out that I wasn't personally attacking the french people. Seriously though, try that little google trick. It turns up some hilarious results.
There has been a world economic revolution raging for almost 2 decades now, it has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty saved millions and millions of lives and is continuing to do so. Countries like America are driving it, and the people of China, for example, are reaping massive benefits from it.
You are confusing public relations and self-defence with charity.
No.
Public relations, self defence and charity have nothing to do with it. It's just greed, pure unadulterated greed.
Europe and America's greed mate. That's what's helping the worlds poor. Consumerism.
They make goods, we buy them. If they don't have any money to start production, we lend it to them. Globalisation.
Where they used to be starving, now loads of them have jobs and industry.
The rich get richer, and the poor get richer too.
What I mean is that conciously or unconciously many nations/blocks/whatever in the world have been led by greed and have chosen to attack other nations/blocks/whatever with means that are almost as damaging as a full scale war. Almost, because most fatalities are in countries noone cares about.
Ehem. The poorer in third world countries (some of them) might be getting "richer" (easy if you start from near zero) but for example in the US the gap between rich and poor has never been greater.
Originally posted by Meon Yea..every country has its glorious moments, and time as a superpower...
China (fall of the roman empire till mongol invasion)
Turks (from their indipendence from the mongols till the battle of lapanto)
The Dutch (from their independence from Spain till the combined invasion of France, England and the German city states, 3rd anglo-dutch war i think it was..)
The British (their supremacy over the dutch till WWI)
The americans (1914 till 1985)
Me (1985 till present)
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
Napoleon was a mediocre strategist with an inflated ego.
Most of his personal war decisions were met with massive losses as well.
He had no concern of his troops, nor did he care they ate rat infested food daily.
This guys a french hero too, what the hell did he do except dig a hole in frances already dwindling economy, and after that WEEE the nobels lavishly, and finally at the end got their asses chopped up.
As for the military comment. LMFAO oufctrl..... China would spank the USA in a war so hard you wouldnt be able to sit down for a generation.
rediculous comment. if they could, they would. seriously.
China has an estimated ~3-400 nuclear warheads.
U.S. has an estimated 10,000+.
now if china and russia hooked up...
Lets not forget that China's warmachine is greatly aged, and the new stuff they have is sub par.
I'm sure 400 nuclear warheads could wipe the US a few times over. This nuclear arms race is confirmation of the crude logic of the human race. You can destroy the world 18 times, well we can destroy it 45 times, so don't mess with us.
that's assuming that all of the missiles hit, none of them are duds, and none of them are intercepted...you might be surprised at how easy it is to shoot a giant missile down.
It doesn't matter though, China is not our ally, their government takes steps to undermine ours, that is not something an ally does. But a war between the two nations will not break out unless something drastic and unforseeable happens, the concept of "M.A.D" is pretty persuasive.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Originally posted by modjoe86 Originally posted by Meon
Originally posted by khanstruct
Originally posted by Meon Yea..every country has its glorious moments, and time as a superpower... China (fall of the roman empire till mongol invasion) Turks (from their indipendence from the mongols till the battle of lapanto) The Dutch (from their independence from Spain till the combined invasion of France, England and the German city states, 3rd anglo-dutch war i think it was..) The British (their supremacy over the dutch till WWI) The americans (1914 till 1985) Me (1985 till present)
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure" I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders Napoleon was a mediocre strategist with an inflated ego.
so were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Most great commanders in history were megalomaniacs, after seeing how the changed the world.
A world without America would be a world with much less egoistic maniacs constantly telling us how great they are because of what their distant ancestors did and what their government controls. Every time one of these "more ego for America" threads pop up and slowly turns into an argument over which countries military is best it makes me cringe.
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Honestly, people overestimate China's economic standing. It's the fourth largest economy in the world, ranking well under 100 in terms of per capita GDP. Its banking system is antiquated and will likely slide into insolvency again without another bailout. If it were to slide into major crisis, not even China's massive cash reserves would bail it out. There's a very good chance it would fail, too, if they ever relaxed investment restrictions and allowed the Yuan to freely float.
Not only that, it's far from an efficient economy. Its capital efficiency rate is horrible. They have to spend way more money to get the same increase in GDP, in other words. Its capital allocation system is also horrible. They put money on the wrong things, a lot of the time.
Their trade policy has been their biggest boon, but it's their biggest potential weakness. They rely on an artificially devalued currency to boost their export standings, yet their overall trade surplus isn't even that high. They may run a high trade surplus with the US, but they run deficits with a lot of other countries. After all, they have few natural resources and their economy is primarily assembly manufacturing, importing components and shipping out assembled product.
China is a country which looks very powerful, very ambitious, and very capable if you look at its goals from afar. It seems like it has the potential to become the world's foremost power in a very short time. In reality, though, when you look at some of the things it does under a microscope, you see a lot of major weaknesses. That doesn't mean it won't continue to rise. It just has a long way to go.
Now, America, I will admit, has done many great things: making the New World democratic comes to mind, the Marshall Plan, curing polio, beating Hitler, the deep-fried Twinkie. But what have we done for us lately? We're not the freest country. That would be Holland, where you can smoke hash in church, and Janet Jackson's nipple is on their flag.
And, sadly, we're no longer a country that can get things done, either. Not big things, like building a tunnel under Boston or running a war with competence. We had six years to fix the voting machines. Couldn't get that done. The FBI is just now getting email!
Prop 87 out here in California is about lessening our dependence on oil by using alternative fuels, and Bill Clinton comes on at the end of the ad and says, "If Brazil can do it, America can, too." Excuse me, since when did America have to buck itself up by saying we could catch up to Brazil?! We invented the airplane and the lightbulb. They invented the bikini wax, and now they're ahead?!
In most of the industrialized world, nearly everyone has health care. And hardly anyone doubts evolution. And, yes, having to live amid so many superstitious dimwits is also something that affects quality of life. It's why America isn't going to be the country that gets the inevitable patents in stem cell cures, because Jesus thinks it's too close to cloning!
Oh, and did I mention we owe China a trillion dollars? We owe everybody money. America is a debtor nation to Mexico! We're not on a bridge to the 21st century. We're on a bus to Atlantic City with a roll of quarters.
And this is why it bugs me that so many people talk like it's 1955 and we're still number one in everything. We're not. And I take no glee in saying this, because I love my country, and I wish we were. But when you're number 55 in this category and number 92 in that one, you look a little silly waving the big foam "Number One" finger.
As long as we believe being the greatest country in the world is a birthright, we'll keep coasting on the achievements of earlier generations and we'll keep losing the moral high ground. Because we may not be the biggest or the healthiest or the best educated. But we always did have one thing no other place did. We knew soccer was bull.
And we also had a little thing called the Bill of Rights. A great nation doesn't torture people or make them disappear without a trial. Bush keeps saying the terrorists hate us for our freedom. And he's working damn hard to see that pretty soon that won't be a problem.
The most important part of reading is reading between the lines.
No, the only thing holding China back is America's ridiculously massive arsenal of nuclear weapons and other technologies. Do you know who REALLY has all of the WMD's?
America does and it wouldn't hesitate to use them if it were presented with a real threat.
America has labs full of biological weapons that could wipe out an entire continent and fusion/fission bombs to finish the job (of course it would be the infamous MAD situation).
Man power means jack nowadays.
This is a sequence of characters intended to produce some profound mental effect, but it has failed.
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Mr.Knowitall your post is heavily clouded by prejudice but i will bite.
The Chinese government has in recent years been using resources provided by Communism to focus on building roads, schools, etc. paving the way for democracy and capitalism. Corporate America has been and still is very optimistic about China (despite the recent stock market drop) and it's not because of cheap outsourced labor.
So you can sit there and fantasize about an American-Chinese war all you want but we are going to get along just fine.
What are you talking about? No single country in the world, no single government in all of history has ever brought more people out of poverty than China has in the last 20 years.
China's wealth through it's socialist system has brought hundreds of thousands of it's citizens out of poverty.
There are hundreds of millions of Chinese who live in poverty, yes, but ten years ago, there was over a billion of them.
No other system of welfare has even approached these kinds of results. None have even come close.
Slowly sliding backwards in terms of social and economic equity for the last decade?
You haven't been paying attention mate. The Chinese stock market doubled in value last year.
600 million citizens have been raised above the poverty line in the last ten years. That is a number equivalent to the populations of Europe and America combined or a population the same size as Africa.
No.
Public relations, self defence and charity have nothing to do with it. It's just greed, pure unadulterated greed.
Europe and America's greed mate. That's what's helping the worlds poor. Consumerism.
They make goods, we buy them. If they don't have any money to start production, we lend it to them. Globalisation.
Where they used to be starving, now loads of them have jobs and industry.
The rich get richer, and the poor get richer too.
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Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I'm not sure if you were joking, but I laughed pretty hard at that comment.
Too funny
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Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
While the dollar value produced by the Chinese economy is 4th in the world, this is offset by the fact that prices are also much lower. China has the worlds second largest economy by GDP purchasing power, and should overtake the US in the number 1 spot within the next few years.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html
Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
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No.
Public relations, self defence and charity have nothing to do with it. It's just greed, pure unadulterated greed.
Europe and America's greed mate. That's what's helping the worlds poor. Consumerism.
They make goods, we buy them. If they don't have any money to start production, we lend it to them. Globalisation.
Where they used to be starving, now loads of them have jobs and industry.
The rich get richer, and the poor get richer too.
What I mean is that conciously or unconciously many nations/blocks/whatever in the world have been led by greed and have chosen to attack other nations/blocks/whatever with means that are almost as damaging as a full scale war. Almost, because most fatalities are in countries noone cares about.
Ehem. The poorer in third world countries (some of them) might be getting "richer" (easy if you start from near zero) but for example in the US the gap between rich and poor has never been greater.
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Notice ya didn't mention France. Here's something to try. Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"...on a realated note, type in "miserable failure"
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
Napoleon was a mediocre strategist with an inflated ego.Most of his personal war decisions were met with massive losses as well.
He had no concern of his troops, nor did he care they ate rat infested food daily.
This guys a french hero too, what the hell did he do except dig a hole in frances already dwindling economy, and after that WEEE the nobels lavishly, and finally at the end got their asses chopped up.
Yeah, my ancestors are freaking awsome.
rediculous comment. if they could, they would. seriously.
China has an estimated ~3-400 nuclear warheads.
U.S. has an estimated 10,000+.
now if china and russia hooked up...
rediculous comment. if they could, they would. seriously.
China has an estimated ~3-400 nuclear warheads.
U.S. has an estimated 10,000+.
Lets not forget that China's warmachine is greatly aged, and the new stuff they have is sub par.now if china and russia hooked up...
rediculous comment. if they could, they would. seriously.
China has an estimated ~3-400 nuclear warheads.
U.S. has an estimated 10,000+.
Lets not forget that China's warmachine is greatly aged, and the new stuff they have is sub par.now if china and russia hooked up...
I'm sure 400 nuclear warheads could wipe the US a few times over. This nuclear arms race is confirmation of the crude logic of the human race. You can destroy the world 18 times, well we can destroy it 45 times, so don't mess with us.
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that's assuming that all of the missiles hit, none of them are duds, and none of them are intercepted...you might be surprised at how easy it is to shoot a giant missile down.
It doesn't matter though, China is not our ally, their government takes steps to undermine ours, that is not something an ally does. But a war between the two nations will not break out unless something drastic and unforseeable happens, the concept of "M.A.D" is pretty persuasive.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
I'm american, I'm also french/irish (by ancestory). I love our country, not a fan of its government, and I hate our special olympics president. Guess we can't have it all. Regardless, any country that becomes a super-power will inevitably become bloated with their own egos. No one is exempt from that law. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only time you could consider france a superpower was under Napoleon, and he wasn't even french of birth. Not that im saying france never had any great leaders
Napoleon was a mediocre strategist with an inflated ego.
so were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Most great commanders in history were megalomaniacs, after seeing how the changed the world.
Have to agree with that, Gameloading,