Comments on: The Chinese Century?

By: max-sky

max-sky — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:46:19 +0000

U.K. consumer confidence fell to a 20-month low in November as the looming government budget squeeze dented Britons’ outlook for 2011, Nationwide Building Society said.
The index of sentiment slipped 7 points from October to 45, the lowest since March 2009, the customer-owned lender said in an e-mailed report today. The gauge has now fallen for three consecutive months. The measure of consumers’ future expectations fell 9 points to 61, also a 20-month low. cheap nike shoes
Prime Minister David Cameron’s drive to tackle the record budget deficit with the deepest spending cuts since World War II threatens to slow economic growth. The squeeze will eliminate 330,000 public-sector jobs and increase sales tax to 20 percent next year from its current level of 17.5 percent.
“The strong rally in sentiment that took place from the middle of 2009 into the first quarter of this year has now been almost completely reversed,” Martin Gahbauer, chief economist at Swindon, England-based Nationwide, said in a statement. “The fall in confidence can largely be attributed to consumers growing increasingly cautious over the outlook.”

By: Rick Gordon

Rick Gordon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:58:44 +0000

The Obama administration is determined to hasten America’s entry to 2nd class status. Rather than boost infrastructure, R&D, math and science, the administration serves the interests of the ABA and AMA and SEIU.
Without a return to the values of hard work, innovation, and responsibility, the U.S. will be working for China, Indonesia, Africa, and Middle Eastern nations in the future.

By: Shawn Irwin

Shawn Irwin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:47:36 +0000

Might be for the better; our leaders are always trying to tell other countries how to run their affairs when we cannot ever handle our own affiars, and we have spent more money and time at war than any other country on the planet. It seems to me that the Chinese and Russians have demonstrated a more mature judgement when it comes to international affairs.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:58:23 +0000

By: steve

steve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:34:03 +0000

America’s greater global economic and military influence did not come into existence until after World War 2…
There for to claim the 20th century America’s is misleading and half truth.
Will China eclipse the once American empire built on Coca cola, Marlboro cigarettes and KFC?
Yes it will.
Will america continue to shrink into 3rd world status as it fails to adopt strong education policies and rebuild its aging infrastructure, because of warmongering policies?.. Yes
Do the Chinese yearn to be the #1 military super power? NO. 5000 years of history suggests otherwise.
For American war hawks/ and a thriving right wing media it would be easy to brush paint a new cold war with “middle earth,” and continue the arrogance of spreading a mythical american culture to all four corners of the world solely based on profit.
Warhawks would also want to appease shareholders who have invested in america’s sole manufacturing base. The industrial military complex.

By: bco

bco — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:31:09 +0000

We may have the culture, the history of freedom and innovation, etc., but they have the numbers.
And, thanks largely to our own corporations’ mindless rush for their own 15 minutes of cheaper manufacturing costs, and the resulting wholesale off-shoring of American jobs and technologies, they now also have a booming economy.
Soon they will have what goes with that, which is a dominating military presence, and highly visible technological feats like a Mars mission.
Our best bet to remain relevant, and perhaps dominant, is to take this as the challenge that it is, by seizing on some worthy goals like addressing climate change and new energy technologies, and throwing our creative might at new industries in those areas.
As for the numbers, it would probably be wise to start working more closely with the EU, which, many Americans will be surprised to learn, is also larger then the US.

By: Nat Ehrlich

Nat Ehrlich — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:15:27 +0000

Every civilization has an arc, and every arc has an apogee. I’d put the apogee of the United States at August 6th, 1945, the day we bombed Hiroshima.
Downhill since that moment.