How long before China becomes the world's leading nation?
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Never, people really need to do their research on China, instead of letting the media whip them up into a frenzy. Here are some facts,China's GDP, from their so-called vaunted economy ,is a little over 3 trillion dollars per year, our GDP  is over 12 Trillion dollars per year.We are one-third of the world's economy! We spend 40% of the world's military budget at 504 Billion dollars ayear.70% of the world's military budget if you throw in our Allies. China spends 39 Billion dollars a year on their military, they won't spend 125 Billion dollars on their military until 2025! They just put a man in space, we've been doing it for 40 years. Of the two major triads of war, surface Naval craft and submarines, the Chinese basically have none of the latter, and few of the former. There is a lot of bottled up internal dissension in China, much of it over the one-child policy,and the government taking people's homes and lands to build on.They basically have no tactical nuclear weapons, and ,yes, we'd go nuclear on China. By tactical nuclear weapons I mean cruise missiles and drone and submarine launched and the like.Believe me , if China didn't already know this they would have gone after Taiwan years ago!
338935
Well, i'm glad you're seeing world with a wide vision..\n\nYes in 2004 a statistical survey was conducted by US banks & financial institutions... Major banks like JP Morgan was involved to study the world economy after few decades... the survey produced an astonishing result!\n\nRESULT: After 50 years, China and India will fight for the world number 1 spot, with US behind by 1/2 ranks...\n\n1. China / India\n2. Japan / US\n\nThe suryvey was based on the current growth of china & India, but if the rate depreciates then the result may be different...\n\nReasons: \n\n* China will become the world leader in exports of consumer products, electronics, computer hardware services...\n\n* India will become the world leader in software industry and export man power worldwide to make its economy boom.. India already leads manpower in s/w industry\n\n* Japan will also be the world leader in automobile, electronics, technology...\n\n* US will be the world leader in research, technology, arms & weapons exports...but economy made down by constant terrorist wars and other competitors like china...\n\nThe World No 1 spot:\n\n* China has major chances than India because of its world largest communism idealogy. Even after supports from world biggest democratic countries, India will lose because of infrastructure and democratic beaureacracy..
528353
China, followed by India. 3rd place according to my estimates, should be Indonesia followed by the US.
9565
The origins of Chinese civilization started back more than 3500 years ago.
1140062
Most definitely yes.\nChina is a very Old and disciplined country that has survived\nfor so many years. thus their huge population.\nThey have the technology and resources to control the world economically. It will be through economic rule that China will be able to dominate the world.\nand if called on the China army is well equipped to defend itself.
450331
China is has the fastest growing economy at the moment and producing the majority of the world's imports! (although there are human rights issues but no one seems to care....)
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im not sure but have some information that might be helpful for u\n China , as everyone knows Chines r too fast in technolgy,so they must b using computers and thier populations is up to 1.1 billion\nand than INDIA,, indian r too fast in software,and whole the world knows about it.and they cant b doing software well without a computer, right,a nd Indian`s populations was very near to 1 billion in 1997,maybe now its 1 billion\nand the 3rd u can consider USA,,the whole states of america..:-? right
269974
Define 'dominating' in this context. No, Asia will not take over the world since there will be a lot of countries disagreeing with such plan. But the population in China is quite extreme.
364420
as of now, yes. with our increasingly socialist views, within 25 years we will be tied with China, who is actually turning capitolistic, eventhough they won't admit.  as we conform our society "not to offend", and "not to make to much money" with government laws, we are turning socialist.  to remain the superpower, we need to stay away from government interference in business. now in order to prevent monopoly, we must have some, but it is the consumer who must drive gas prices down, and the consumer who must demand an alternate energy source.  a new energy source will determine the next superpower
1139881
China is already an economic superpower \nIt is the no.1 manufacturing destination in the world !\n\nAs far as overall econonomy, China overtaking the USA ... some way to go !!!
953494
China is a power to reckon with in the future especially that it s booming a an economic power.  Later, it might develop  superior arms and might engage in military adventurism in conquering other countries.
366405
The Sino-American War will happen in the next 20 years. It will involve nuclear weapons. Invading China isn't feasible.  That's also a bad battle plan, because the longer we wait, the stronger China gets.
216772
30 more years. China, or else a conglomerate of Asian or Middle Eastern states.
314036
China is pretty smart... I think we can all agree they have an artifically devalued currecy, which gives them a nice advantage in the world market, but hey it's not like the U.S. doesn't have some nice advatages too. I worry a lot about human rights issues there and I wish they could maybe set a little better example for Southeast Asia. But as for it's role in the international community, it's a billion people, huge workforce for potentially cheap labor and huge market for imported goods. The needs are pushing up the prices for goods internationally though, like oil, but hey that's consumerism.
18369
It will take a while, but sooner or later Google will rule the world. Knowledge is power. Right now the Chinese are still in their internet infancy. They'll grow up eventually and realize that the only way to maintain in the global community is to know your friends and your enemies.
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Hi Jildikoo,\n  Besides english, I would strongly suggest learning chinese as China is quickly becoming the largest trading partner to many countries on the planet. My guess is that anyone who is fluent in chinese in the next 5-10 years can write their own paycheck. A business background would enhance that paycheck considerably. Make no mistake about, China will be the next superpower within the next 15-20 years. My second language would probably be Indian for pretty much the same reasons. In both cases choose the most spoken dialect.\n As for learning Russian, I can definately recommend it if your looking to score some of those tall hot looking blonde Russian babes and ordering Beluga caviar and vodka all night long. \nпозволяет стороне (lets party in Russian)
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In China, we are more likely to observe a transitional process through a broad spectrum of social arrangements. This will likely move slowly enough to prevent the kind of strife we have observed elsewhere. Expect China to remain mostly socialized for a very long time.