Would it be a next super power ? Its economy rise extremely and it coming close to u.s. and e.u.
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Would it be a next super power ? Its economy rise extremely and it coming close to u.s. and e.u.
I think you need to re-evaluate the last part of your statement as China's economy is far stronger than either the USA or EU.
As for becoming a super power, well there is only really one and I don't think America will allow anyone to take that title away from them, even if they clearly are no longer in that position.
Well there were lots of super powers in history ( britain , rome... ) and they had that status when there economy was superior to other . Today usa have most advanced army in the world but there is a question how to finance it if economy are fooling .
On the other hand china put more and more money to its army and the technological gap is even smaller . So in the next 30 - 30 years it will be a question witch army is better .
There is also a question of space exploration . Maybe the first flag on mars will be chinese .
I don't see the Chinese economy as big strong as they would like to believe it is. Frankly the Chinese have long pegged their currency on the US dollar and that is causing all typed of problems . Also they have pretty much shut down all industry for the last couple of months within 200 miles of their capital in a desperate attempt to make the air clean enough for athletes to compete in.
As to your point about super power status. Curley gets it right in that there will be a sturggle for supremacy in the post cold war world and some of the liikely main players certainly presumably will be China and the US (I would add other emerging giants as India and Brazil and the country's who's petro-dollars are increasing their influence) .
Stratfor (an intel analysis organization ) put it this way :
The New Era | StratforQuote:
. Powers or coalitions of powers form and do battle across the world. Their struggles define the eras through which humanity evolves, and those struggles tend to end in a military conflict that lays the groundwork for the next era. The Germans defeated Imperial France in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, giving rise to the German era. That era lasted until a coalition of powers crushed Germany in World Wars I and II. That victorious coalition split into the two sides of the Cold War until the West triumphed in 1989.
New eras do not form spontaneously. There is a brief — historically speaking — period between the sweeping away of the rules of the old era and the installation of the rules of the new. These interregnums tend to be very dangerous affairs, as the victorious powers attempt to entrench their victory as new powers rise to the fore — and as many petit powers, suddenly out from under the thumb of any grand power, try to carve out a niche for themselves.
The post-World War I interregnum witnessed the complete upending of Asian and European security structures. The post-World War II interregnum brought about the Korean War as China's rise slammed into America's efforts to entrench its power. The post-Cold War interregnum produced Yugoslav wars, a variety of conflicts in the former Soviet Union (most notably in Chechnya), the rise of al Qaeda, the jihadist conflict and the Iraq war.
All these conflicts are now well past their critical phases, and in most cases are already sewn up. All of the pieces of Yugoslavia are on the road to EU membership. Russia's borderlands — while hardly bastions of glee — have settled. Terrorism may be very much alive, but al Qaeda as a strategic threat is very much not. Even the Iraq war is winding to a conclusion. Put simply, the Cold War interregnum is coming to a close and a new era is dawning.
In the USA we desparately need financial conservatives in control rather than otherwise. Remember the USSR? It simply disintegrated because of Communist mis-management, and the same thing will eventually happen to China, and could happen to us. I was in Russia for a short time in 1993 and realized that it was a third world country, that is, backward in so many ways. We saw machinery standing idle when the highway desparately needed repair. Our interpreter told us that when the crops were ready to harvest, the machinery often broke down, and repairs were impossible to get in a timely manner, so the crops just rotted in the fields. When profit motive is destroyed, there is no other way to motivate people to do those things necessary to keep a country running. Shopping was so cumbersome that it was no mystery why it took women all day to buy a weeks worth of groceries, providing that the groceries were there to buy, which they often weren't
I think it is sleeping giant that if given all the power they can have will be a powerful country as well.. they have the olympics to prove that they can keep up with the times.Quote:
Originally Posted by ravana2
What do you by that then? The Chinese People's Liberation Army has an extra MILLION personnel in their force and all the skills and weaponry to boot!Quote:
Originally Posted by ravana2
Come on, the Allied Forces are having a bad enough time taking on Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban who only have suicide bombs and AK47s!
China worries me though, I will say that!
Not a bad little bit from wikipedia here;
Potential superpowers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They have a big army but not a good technology . They buy a lot from russia . OK they have a nuks but many countries have them too . Usa and soon europe are covered with shield so it will be difficult to them to attack us from the space . We are also a far away from them so they can come by land . Only countries that are in danger are countries of south-east asia .
Terrorists are harder to fight than countries. With countries, you know who and where they are, unlike the terrorists.
And to those who think the terrorists are only an Amerian or Israeli problem, please note that many countries are being attacked by these suicidal maniacs.
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