China: The world's second biggest economy

[Liffrea]

THEY feed and clothe us, its billionaires own our companies and this week China officially became the world's second biggest economy, a step closer to its ultimate communist goal of global domination.

ABOUT 15 years ago in a town in south-western China I interviewed a man who owned a factory manufacturing wickerware – little baskets and trays, the sort of knick-knacks you find anywhere from market stalls to posh home furnishing emporia.

He was also a father of six, in blatant contravention of China’s one-child policy, as he cheerfully admitted.

“But I don’t care,” he told me. “I can afford the fines. I am a successful businessman. I am a modern Chinese and there are many more like me – just wait and see.”

He and his countrymen have not kept the world waiting for very long. In a single generation, China has rocketed to the top of virtually every economic league table. Yesterday it was revealed that China has now overtaken Japan as the world’s second biggest economy.

The Chinese economy is now growing at a staggering 10 per cent per year while Japan – which has held second place since 1968 and is now China’s main trading partner – can only manage three per cent at most. Analysts believe it is only a matter of time before China claims the number one spot from the United States.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/193853/China-The-world-s-second-biggest-economy

[Saruman]

Chinese economy is hardly communist these days, and China is getting nationalist as the time progresses, the Chinese at the moment have full control of their country, and that's a plus for them. How and when they get submerged in global society should it be successful in establishing it self as it has thus far in the West, that remains to be seen.

[Cato]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/news/071225_p9_cartoon%20Toys%20made%20in%20China.jpg

[poiuytrewq0987]

Good to see my comrades make it! Soon the world will be engulfed in blinding glory of Communism!

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/03/comrades_lg_070803103005487_wideweb__300x441.jpg

[poiuytrewq0987]

It's kind of funny how the roles have been totally reversed for Russia and China.

[Saruman]

That guy in your avatar is a really good Stalin double.:D

[Psychonaut]

Evey other international incident and conflict is but smokescreen for China's emerging hegemony. In the words of Mugatu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugatu#Mugatu), "do not be distracted by the beautiful celebrities!" Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, et al. are of no consequence compared to the real player: 中华人民共和国.

[Crossbow]

I don't like them so much, and I would be far from pleased when they would take over control. Chinese have a mentality that differs very much from ours. Furthermore, this would mean a gigantic victory over the West that once colonized China, and, in their view humiliated it. But they're allways discrete about everything. Maybe they are a bigger menace than Islam is. It's a huge country with an enormous population to exploit. A single human life means little in China.
Today, you can find them everywhere, and they don't have a bad reputation either, but we don't know much about them (discrete, remember). Many Chinese supermarkets sell cheap rubbish, because we buy their rubbish, so they keep on producing rubbish.

[Liffrea]

Naturally it is in the interests of any state to be as self sufficient as is possible if it intends to be as politically independent as possible.

However that isn’t a reality in a globalised economy, Asia will run the global economy whether we like it or not.

Not that Western Europe and North America need to worry so much. At present trends Western civilisation has a sell by date not much greater than Washington’s economic primacy.