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Is China The Next Biggest Super Power
DrewKaree:
They can get drinking water.
OH...I forgot to add on there - discuss: ;)
missioncontrol:
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but how safe is the drinking water ???
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: missioncontrol on March 24, 2005, 10:38:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 24, 2005, 10:24:21 pm ---They can get drinking water.
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but how safe is the drinking water ???
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Where do you think a homeless person is going to choose to get his water from - the dirty puddle in the gutter, or head into a McDonald's bathroom and find the sink?
I'll go with homeless people being smart enough to stay alive, therefore, they'll choose the local bathroom of some place near them to find water.
I'll go a step further and say the water coming out of the sink in a bathroom is billions of times cleaner than Chinese puddle water.
APFelon:
Good gravy. Are all of you so young as to not remember that these EXACT SAME THINGS were said about Japan in the late '70s early '80s?
They can manufacture things cheaper and faster blah blah blah they will dominate the Pacific Rim blah blah they will soon demand to remilitarize yadda yadda yadda.
Yeah... Well, so how's that coming along?
AND... this exact same stuff was said about China in the early '90s, except in that scenario, the Chinese were supposed to dominate the Olympics by the year 2008. Anyone want to place some early wagers on their prospects?
China may someday become the world's next superpower, but it isn't going to be today and it won't be tomorrow. The deck is incredibly stacked against them.
No offshore military bases.
Inefficient centralized government.
Incredibly poor infastructure.
Stifled religious and human rights issues.
Encirclement in the Pacific by the US and allies of the US.
Focused on protectionism and isolationism.
Insignificant domestic oil production.
... and this is just the SHORT LIST of issues China needs to overcome before they can have a seat at the "superpower" buffet.
APf
ChadTower:
Not yet, but they ARE creating huge waves in international commodities markets simply by the volume of their demand. Here in MA the price of lumber is skyrocketing... why? All vendors say the same thing: their suppliers are selling it all to China.