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Originally Posted by MMM
China has no interest in making the world a better place.
China is more populated than America, but certainly not as influential.
Is China doing things to make the world a better place? To be honest, no. They are desperately trying to make the country ready for the Olymipics in three weeks, so they have banned car-usage on thier citizens until the Olympics are over. Have you ever heard of that before?
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Why should china concern themselves with making the world a better place when they haven't even solved all their own issues? But if you want to be
really specific, then why don't we mention the fact that China is trying to help the Afghan government train profesionals in economics, law etc.
China not as influential as the US?... this response goes for what Paul11 said also. You do realise that if china were to stop producing their "shit", most of us would be in the dark ages. The matter of fact is; China produces well over 80% of our consumer goods. And I'm talking about the middle class citizen. If you're rich, of course you can afford things made in your home country costing more than 10 times. So, I'd say that without China, we would be pretty f-ed. But without the US, I don't see us being in as much trouble. The US, like UK, is mainly services, finance, which of course are very important, but far easier to sort out than losing a country that produces everything for us.
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Originally Posted by Paul11
Even if China becomes a "superpower" there are a few reasons not to be afraid. I understand your fear. But, china is full of several cultural groups of people and it is very difficult for china to gain support of all these groups. Throughout history China has been thwarted in some of thier aims because of lack of support from the populace. Also, although they own a lot of the debt of the western countries (mostly America) they gain all thier income and power from us buying all thier shit. If they rub the world wrong and loose out business they are sunk.
It's been said that america has lost direction and focus because they no longer have a Commie rival. All the western countries have become full of soft, debt-ridden, pleasure seeking people who think the world is all about rainbows and that everything will be fine if you just talk to people an "get out your message." Maybe a new challenger will light a fire under our asses and give us a reason to buckle down.
And lastly, joshaussie, you change your avatar more often than I change my underwear.
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Like I said above, if you (western countries) were to stop buying chinese goods, prepare yourself to enter the dark ages.