Countries that can compete with the West

[zhaoyun]

Lenovo is a good example. The two more visible Chinese companies I can think of right now are Huawei and Ali Baba. I would wager there will be more cultural visibility with China in the coming decades. It would be interesting to see American teenagers trying to teach themselves Chinese.

I will state that unlike many Chinese, I actually like and admire Japan on the whole. I don't really hold a grudge over the past (even though my dad hated Japan and raised me to do so, I dont). I admire Japan as one of the first East Asian countries to industrialize and setting a shining example for other East Asian countries, many of which followed suit, and China is fast following in it's footsteps.

The next 20 years will see a dramatic shift in the sophistication and quality of Chinese companies. It's already happening very quickly and people outside of China have very little understanding of the size and scope of this transition. In just the last five years, China went from being a great laggard in R&D spending to being just No. 2 behind the US and rapidly catching up. Just this year, it became a larger Venture Capitalist market than the US. Basically, there's a huge shift happening that many people don't really see.

[Profileid]

Then East can compete.

How?

[Fractal]

I place my bet on China. The Japanese are way too busy watching anime and other shit than caring competing with the western world. China and Russia are the only countries that have the potential in becoming world super power after America falls down to sunder.

Russia already is a superpower.

[Bezprym]

How?

Quite easily, you mentioned Japan, some mention China, there is India mentioned as well. Add everything together and you will have a worthy opponent. Russia must be biased though, it is Europe and not Europe at the same time.

[zhaoyun]

Russia already is a superpower.

Russia is a great power. It's not a superpower. It was one.

China is emerging as a superpower, but not there yet, but will likely get there in the next 10 years.

The US is still the only superpower.

[Kamal900]

Russia already is a superpower.

But not globally. The US is..for now. Either Russia or China takes the US place when it collapses in the near future.

[zhaoyun]

How?

Some of China's largest corporations are starting to invest heavily into entertainment. As a whole, China's corporate world knows that the days of cheap labor, copying and cheap exports is over, and they need to invest in other fields to survive.

Tencent, one of the world's largest companies by cash flow is heavily investing into gaming and anime. Although I do hate anime, I am pretty astonished by the scale and how quick they are developing as a gaming/entertainment company. Take this new animation movie for example, they are now investing in being a vertically integrated entertainment company meaning they are producing games, then producing animation movies based on those games, and also sponsoring e-gaming leagues.

[Ülev]

beside it proves Earth flatness - emigrate to Argentina who can



http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middl...ower_2009.html

[alpha]

the west is quickly declining. any country and every country will have its slice of the cake in the future.

[Harkonnen]

Japan is too small and limited in natural resources to truly compete with fex. USA. China has the potential to compete if it can enhance it's performance.

Somewhat related: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...044-Media-Wars