What you all say is very true. But, I don't think that the people who run China, or the Chinese, really care.
They will be the next superpower, within the next five years. The US will continue to self obliterate into a second rate country.
Regardless of what others may think, about their educational system, their business practices, their land aspirations, etc, it really doesn't matter. China's military will soon be the largest and the most technologically advanced in the world, a scary thought when you really think about it. And people are pissed off that our "idiot" Bush is helping India with nuclear weapons (people tend to forget that India is a serious counterweight to Chinese power in the region). And, because of China's shitty educational system, and it's overwhelming population of peasants who will work for two dollars a day, it is poised to become an economic powerhouse, more so than it currently is.
The days of US supremacy are over; our immigration issues have already seen to that. The Europeans (French, Germans, Swedes, Spain, etc) have already lost it, due to large immigrant influxes (mostly Islamic) which threaten to destroy their national identities. Russia will not be what it once was, and China is ready to step up and fill the void.
Why should they care about everyone else complaining about their "human rights" records? Or anything else about their behavior? It just doesn't matter. A new 800 pound gorilla is moving into the neighborhood, and he doesn't give a shit what everyone else thinks.
And with that bit of jaded cynical discourse, I'm going to go train.
They will be the next superpower, within the next five years. The US will continue to self obliterate into a second rate country.
Regardless of what others may think, about their educational system, their business practices, their land aspirations, etc, it really doesn't matter. China's military will soon be the largest and the most technologically advanced in the world, a scary thought when you really think about it. And people are pissed off that our "idiot" Bush is helping India with nuclear weapons (people tend to forget that India is a serious counterweight to Chinese power in the region). And, because of China's shitty educational system, and it's overwhelming population of peasants who will work for two dollars a day, it is poised to become an economic powerhouse, more so than it currently is.
The days of US supremacy are over; our immigration issues have already seen to that. The Europeans (French, Germans, Swedes, Spain, etc) have already lost it, due to large immigrant influxes (mostly Islamic) which threaten to destroy their national identities. Russia will not be what it once was, and China is ready to step up and fill the void.
Why should they care about everyone else complaining about their "human rights" records? Or anything else about their behavior? It just doesn't matter. A new 800 pound gorilla is moving into the neighborhood, and he doesn't give a shit what everyone else thinks.
And with that bit of jaded cynical discourse, I'm going to go train.
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