What do you think about China ?Is it becoming a great country like US?
396578
What exactly do you mean by "great"? If you're mean great economically, militarily, and influentially, then the answer is probably yes. However, how it will exercise that power will determine whether it is great or not.\n\nSo really, there is no answer to your question at the moment . All we know is that China will be a huge influence on the World in this century.
844571
China is still quite far off from becoming the next superpower.  The American military hegemony is still by far the strongest on the face of the earth.  China really can't compare.  However, by mid-century the notion of China as another superpower is a legitimate query.  The answer to if they will dictate world policy like the US - is NO. Although both China and America's economy will both serve as dominate powers, foreign policy is one of the biggest differences between China and the US.  China has, for hundreds of years...(going back to Genghis Kahn and the Mongols) been a very protectionist country.  It is ingrained in them to stand up against foreign invaders, and to keep the motherland strong - through its people.  The US has not been invaded, pillaged, looted in its history...hardly at all actually.  Therefore,  American aggression stems out of having nop empathy to what it is like to have a war happen in your own country.  Insofar as China will be a superpower, it will be a superpower that respects all countries and does not meddle in the internal happening/politics...which the US has become notorious for (esp. latter 20thc.)  \nRight now, Beijing has 48 African leaders in its capital to discuss: investment, trade and politics.  While China does not support terrorism, or fund it in any way, they do respect soveriegn nations right to develop in a peaceful way, with a government chosen by their people.  \nOn the though of an American/Chinese war.  While the 20thc century was a century of large nation states fighting for imperialist reasons, the 21st c. will be characterized more by large nation states combatting terrorism/nuclear proliferation and other uprisings around the world that seek to change the status quo.  China and the US's economies today are so interdependent, that any war between the two, would have debilitating effects on both countries.  Something that neither country wants.  Whether you like it or not, China and the US are allies. I know this is difficult for most Americans to except...especially with the trade blockade still in effect against Cuba...but communist China is now an ally to America.  The USA supports the one-China policy of Taiwan, Tibet, and scores of other issues that could potentially strike a rift between the two. Likewise, China has said it is commited to fighting terrorism.\nChina and the USA will never go to war with each other. \nIt is simply not in their interests, and would be catastrophic for both countries.
34496
China has had double digit GDP growth for the past 20 years (in comparison, developed countries have GD growth of about 2.5 - 3.5 %. India is growing at a very fast pace as well, with its continued dominance in IT. However, China gets approximately 10 times the amount of foreign investment as compared to India. \n\nThere is no doubt that these countries are growing: the question is whether these countries are stable politically in the long term.
49024
Well, I don't know everything but here are some things ...\n\n1. They are building a new city the size of Philadelphia (1 million people) every month.  The Chinese economy is BOOMING.\n2. They can make furniture of same quality as Broyhill, and sell this furniture to Broyhill for the price Broyhill pays for just the wood in the US (The point is that China can make and export almost everything we make, for a tiny fraction of what it cost to make it in the US).\n3. Chinese national pride is HUGE, and so Chinese do not like to buy American.  But, Americans love to buy Chinese (Almost, everything you see in Walmart is Chinese.)\n4. China's military is getting ready to take back Taiwan (they have a HUGE military build up working in that direction).\n5. China's military is recruiting engineers at a very rapid rate.  Soon, they will have a VERY advanced military.\n6. China is making some strong treaties with Russia.\n7. China announced a few months ago that they are launching 300 satelites "to watch their people".  You don't need 300 satelites for a country that size.  300 satelites are enough to watch the whole world.\n\nSo, to summarize . . . The US has become the middle man of the world economy, and China is the manufacturing center.  If the world decides to cut us out and buy Chinese at the same time the world decides that the US should pay $10 or $20 per gallon for gas (which may happen), then China becomes the new World Power and the US becomes a third world country full of starving people (of course, WWIII might come first).\n\nPray that our next president is a great diplomat and not a John Wayne want-a-bee.
218639
No way, China is fast becoming a superpower. I think they will eventually become a superpower beyond what the world has ever seen. They are already in a position to make the US go bankrupt whenever they decide it will be in their best interest.
213815
It is too hard to tell right now, but that does seem to be a good guess at this point.  Their economy is growing at an insane rate and their population makes the US look like a small village.\n\nOne problem for China though is the unity of the people.  From what I have heard, many of the Chinese in rural areas and in certain sections of the country do not feel a strong attachment to the government, and some even want independence.  The repressive government is also not helping matters.  With such a large area and so many people it is very difficult to maintain unity.\n\nIt will be interesting to see what happens, but I hope if the future does belong to China that it will be accompanied by rational and democratic reforms and an overhaul of their human rights policies (or lack of).
193172
I think so. China has already has a larger population than we do. This means that they have more man power. More man power means they can produce more for cheaper. They also have the ability to have more great minds and creative thinkers because of such a population. And, if we don't shape up we are screwed.
521446
It'll be a major economic power, but not like a power that'll rule the world.  Those days are over.\n\nIf anything, China will be the next superpower.
439756
It's happening right now before your eyes. The USA is becoming marginalized just like Europe and most recently England. It will be drastically apparent in about 20 years, as China begins to approach the US economy in overall size (GDP).\n\nIt is interesting to see that some Americans are starting to sense something historical is happening. Historians of the future 100 years from now, will look back at the early 1990's when China first started taking off. Yes, it has been happening for that long, but 99% of Americans just didn't pay attention, now there is no stopping China and India from becoming the center of the world for what probably will be for the rest of the existence of humanity.
1170831
China's communism is much deeper rooted than the Soviet System.  One thing you can say for the Chinese is that they do evolve to new systems when they are better.  You can see this slow change over the thousands of years that China has existed.  Kinda makes you feel like a baby country when you think the US has only been around for 200 years.
850825
The USA is a great place, but it is egomania to claim we are better than anyone else.\n\nThe EU does a better job providing basic services such as healthcare to its citizens. China has a bigger Army. Japan has a cleaner enviroment, and better education. Dubia has a higher per capita wage.\n\nUSA is good, but not the best
39573
It could be another superpower, there doesn't need to be only one as England/France proved in the days of empire. China definately has the capacity to become a superpower, it has the most people of any nation, is quickly industrialising and has the largest air force of any nation already. My guess is that it will achieve true superpower status at around 2040.
22237
Chinas a country in the Eastern Hemisphere, lot's of history, really big country, lot's of people. \n\nBe more specific with your questions
57821
yes.  Actually many products that are made in China are of better quality than those made in the US.  China has made great strides in technologies development in the last 10 years.
240368
I think that China is defending back its self now. The US has alwasys used such reports to manipulate other countries and force them to comply with its interests. Now China is no longer playing behind the scenes. I think the US will reconsider issuing these kinds of reports in the future because now the truth has been uncovered.  Democracy is not about eating hamburger and watching hundereds of T.V. channels. If you remember, a lot of fabrication went on in Bush's first period elections!!
420043
You have it backwards. China isn't ready to compete with us.\n\nSeriously, do you think we became a Superpower through blundering along? We know China's there, and China isn't a threat in any real way but nuclear.\n\nGive them fifty more years, then we'll talk.
455343
China becomes the new economic superpower... U.S. becomes much more like current eurpean nations are now... powerful, but not the main power... overall, there won't be a major difference on "the streets"