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COMMENTS:
Voted : Frightening.
see ballot #177577
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see ballot #117577
Voted : Dangerous.
And India can be Marky Mark.
Voted : Frightening.
What really angers me about this is that people are only now raising their voices in anger. This has been going on for fifty-plus years, folks. I myself have known this was coming for twenty-plus.
Voted : Comment
I do not feel threatened in any way by China. Frankly I'm curious about the specific reasons why anyone would feel that way...? What exactly is the problem; or what are the main concerns?
Voted : Dangerous.
They are an evil dictatorship. If they don't care about the human rights of their own citizens to that extent, us foreigners shouldn't trust that if given the opportunity that the Chinese authorities would treat us non-Chinese with much either.
All true comments and choices. The thing is with America's economey plumeting and in a major debt crisis its let China in through the back door. As Truthseeker said this has been forseeable. Even the lowest IQ'd morons saw this all aaages ago but the people at the top were too concerned with other things. And now were preparing to pay the price as in this new future China will be the worlds dominating force. We wait with baited breath.
In all seriousness Aplerod ..the thing is ...as a British serviceman i can to a greater extent trust that western countries such as Britain and the US arent going to abuse the massive power we both weild. But China it seems are quite willing to set their sites on global omination. I coold be wrong of course but the ting is they are near on the worlds dominating force now. God knows what they'll be like given a few more years.
Well hopefully you can appreciate some of the irony here. The British Empire pried China open to "free trade" in the mid-19th century by smuggling gargantuan quantities of opium into the 'country' grown mostly in British India. China would have been content to limit all foreign trade to the single port of Canton, because such trade was unnecessary to sustain the Chinese dynasties which had existed already for two millenia at that point. But widespread and increasing opium addiction--combined with the dominion imposed by an immensely superior British army/Navy forced China to give up more and more trade privileges (and land, and legal rights) not only to the British Empire but to successive waves of foreign world powers interested in exploiting the Far East land without fear of repercussions...
Well, surprise! Who introduced global capitalism by force? Global capitalism didn't mean much coming from China during the first half of the 20th century (when the Empire finally collapsed) -- but since then China has come to adopt the predominant Western model of life: organized completely around production, facilitated on a mass scale by the rapid industrialization and advances in technology Britain and the United States experienced starting two centuries prior in the form of our Industrial Revolutions.
So we live in an era and a world where power is increasingly determined above all else by wealth. And yes it is true that money buys everything concrete, like weapons. But this kind of power is not to be confused with strength, as in strength through integrity and wisdom...
Agreed. But it worries me to think that they may be telling the rest of the world to jump and us be saying how high when they do come to full power.
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