Will China really take over?
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- jetSkii0
It's amazing that the only Asian country to side with the Nazis are considered cool today.
- I heard Hermann Göring was a massive hello kitty fan.mydo
- Hiroshima, NagasakiTheBlueOne
- Projectile0
What the fuck, brah?!!!
AMERICA THE GREATEST CUNTRY IN THE WOLD WILL FUCK THEM UP!!! THEY ALL GONNA DIE! FAGGOT MORANS!!
...or Americans will just eat them, more likey.
- Josev0
This is interesting, from here: http://www.globalissues.org/arti…
"Accounting for the increased population between 1981 and 2005, the poverty rate has, however, fallen by about 25%.
While this at least sounds encouraging, it masks regional variations, and perhaps most glaringly the impact of China:
Between 1981 and 2005:
- China’s poverty rate fell from 85% to 15.9%, or by over 600 million people
- China accounts for nearly all the world’s reduction in poverty
- Excluding China, poverty fell only by around 10%"
- mydo0
^ "roughly 13 to 17% of Americans living below the poverty line "
- mydo0
In answer to the very first question. my considered opinion is that china will continue to grow and influence, but it's influence will never reach our daily lives like the UK and US did. There are times is hard to tell i'm even in Shanghai. New China is International, English speaking and coffee drinking. Don't worry clearThoughts, you are quite safe from change.
- ETM0
Ultimately, globalization is reducing the ability for the global superpowers like in the past and China is simply filling the vacuum the US and other major players are creating during something of a balancing process.
- drgz0
One of my friends works in China. He has 12subordinate engineers and 50 assistants of some kind. He and the assistants never talk to each other, he talks only to the engineers. The engineers are from many parts of China, but what's special about them is that their parents are either military officers or provincial party officials, etc. so by Chinese standards you wouldn't call them simple people. From them he learns about the real life of simple people in China.
He has a work visa and is allowed to travel everywhere where tourists are not allowed, except Tibet and the Uighurs, unstable areas. How he explains it:
There are so-called economic zones, where people still have rights. In all other areas -- only duties. Free areas are also the former territories of the CER (local ethnic groups, non-Chinese).
People in rural areas continue to multiply like rabbits. If you have more than one kid, the extra children will never have a passport, never go to school and would never be able to seek medical help. Ie, people who do not exist, who work in factories from the age of 6 literally for one meal a day.
All the statistics you read about China are based on the economic zones, not the industrial part of China, factories where even lazy europeans would keep 2 workers, in China they hold 50-100 employees for the stupidest tasks possible, only one them actually receives a salary, everyone else works for food -- literaly. People are in abundance like garbage.
If China is to transfer all of its production to its consumption, there will be only enough money to pay for it once, and secondly the prices of goods will be more expensive than in Europe and Japan.
China is a myth. Never buy anything Chinese, idiots.
I still own a Siemens TV with black and white screen - it has everything I need. Made in Germany, the farewell batch.
- I assure you that a vast majority of what you own is made in China!utopian
- even his dildo is most likely made in china. erm. i wouldn't know.ephix
- I handcraft everything I own from wooddrgz
- by wood he means the imported dildos from china. translation error.ephix
- damn, pretty interesting. drgz comment. not the dildos.IRNlun6
- People seem surprised by drgz's comment. China has been, always will be a fascist dictatorship country.74LEO
- sorry i didn't read it. maybe tomorrow.ephix
- georgesIII0
well, if I could chose a superpower,
I'll go with invisibility or xray vision.on a serious note,
why not give china a chance,
I don't care if they become the world's superpower as long as they don't go around the world stealing/rapping/pillaging the remaining ressources.- I hope they don't start rapping eitherukit
- M.C. China and the Sweatshop GangETM
- ukit and etm. LOL!!!akrokdesign
- So you haven't seen what China has been doing in Africa then?TheBlueOne
- TBO we have had 500 years * of western domination, look where it led us,georgesIII
- clearThoughts0
Yeah, right. Great solution.
- eating_tv0
We'll have already run clean out of planet before China overtakes either Europe and/or the US.
- ukit0
I just wonder which model is better positioned for a globalized world. One where the state has ability to control industries and make radical changes across the whole society. Or one where government is limited to the point where changes that affect a powerful interest are very difficult.
Putting aside the issue of democracy vs authoritarianism, left vs right, etc, which do you think is better positioned for success? Especially considering the world could go through massive changes over the next several decades in terms of energy and other issues.
- Please, forget this left & right thing... i think traditional policies are dead for nowOBBTKN
- The problem is the only government metod that is able to force the people to make the changes in future needed...OBBTKN
- is the one everyone here did´nt want to mentionOBBTKN
- Talking on success terms...
Then, for me, fuck success, let´s talk about other term!OBBTKN - Seeing the human race (seeing the things been done before)... i think the war to control the energetic resources is innevitableOBBTKN
- inevitableOBBTKN
- 23kon0
World War III will be between China (and friends) and the US (and friends).
That's something I keep meaning to go into a bookies and put money on.
- SO TRUE.TheeOtherJuan
- not true. the eu is trading with both. very succesfull... by the waysandpipe
- yeah but US will get pissed when China becomes more powerful than it23kon
- then Americas "One World" concept is fuct so theyl throw their toys out the pram23kon
- akrokdesign0
so more of Detroit, here then.
- Basically yes. China and other countries will wipe the floor with us.ukit
- e-pill0
i was working for a Taiwanese Luggage/ Travel accessories manufacturer. they have 1 Billion dollars in global sales, and are pushing for 1.5 Billion by the end of this year.
i freelanced for this company on and off thru the last decade, but it was in 2008 that they decided to open a NYC design office.
everyone that was hired were all senior level designers with over 10 years experience, plus equal sales and production..
they had me goto asia for close to 3 months, and during that time i had seen a document with everyone's name from the NYC office on it, that would be let go, once they completed their stay in Asia.
My name was on that list. I realized that they were just trying to learn how we in America design or formulate our concepts as they had a design team in Taipei with over 45 designers.
I had worked directly managing their team as well as the production factories in main-land China.
1 month after my return to NYC, the office was closed as they had learned a lot from me and 5 other seniors.
this type of practice is common from China developers, as they are maximizing their capabilities in design and making strong sale-able products.
i got a very nice severance package, but initially we were all working very hard to make their dreams a reality only to get shafted in the end.
very poor business considering their sales figures.
meh.. i should be going to China b4 the end of the year.. this time for a larger corporation.. it will become my 32 trip overseas..
thankfully this is not a Taiwanese corporation looking only to steal ones ideas and talents.
- LOL lets see the exact same thing happen with your new companyPIZZA
- THIS is exactly what I am talking about. Thanks for explaining it so well.clearThoughts
- the exact same thing wont happen at this company, since they outsourced me directly.e-pill
- monNom0
"I don't care if they become the world's superpower as long as they don't go around the world stealing/rapping/pillaging the remaining resources."
this is pretty much the definition of what a super power does. USA does this, England did it before them, prior to that was the dutch, and before them the spanish, etc.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Interesting stuff e-pill. Unfortunate, but interesting. Scary times :(
- bumdrizzle0
this thread is now about e-pill.