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[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[thepeel]

haha. Joo. You love your country quite a lot, eh?

Yes, this will continue to be an American century.

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[mistermasan]

the chinese gov't never said the one child policy will last forever. yes, there are problems built into such a solution. how long can they go withsuch a population "mushroom" is a very good question.

[Czarjorge]

The problems that plague Neocons are many, but the greatest one is their lack of imagination. Narrow, close minded thinking hidden behind 'realism' is still narrow, close minded thinking.

Those wily Chinese have lots of options. Cloning. Suicide, voluntary or coerced. A war with old soldiers. Hell, soylent ancestor might even be an option, Chinese cuisine works well with mystery meat.

Old white men, and people who want to be old white men, are on their way out. Accept it.

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Czarjorge]

I assume that cloning technology, if it becomes possible, will be shortly thereafter accompanied by the tech that allows clones to be aged more rapidly. It makes sense, especially in light of the potential for clones to be used as organ replacement vessels or for space exploration. (Then again, in the case of space exploration they could be educated while aging in some sort of stasis on the journey.)

Sidenote: Are verbs your enemy too? You often forget to use them.

You guys on the right take that term too serious. Politically right and right as in correct aren't the same thing. You're argument does have merit. It is possible that as the century passes China will experience a problem with their aged. But China's ascendancy is primarily to be driven by an increase in the number of their middle class and the accompanying increase in their power as a global market. Old people still work and still buy things, and with the medical advances that have taken place in just the last ten years it's crazy to think the next twenty years won't address some of the problems China might face.

Don't underestimate China. What I'm most surprised by is the lack of focus on India as a potential threat. They're our ally now, but who knows what can happen in the next few decades.[/i]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

The US won' t have any problems with India cause they are a democracy.

Also India is a religiously fractured nation with incredible poverty they have a long time to go before they get to where China is now.

IF China can deal with their aged with new treatments then the US who is richer ought to be able to do it first.

[Czarjorge]

India's economy is growing even faster than China's. They're about a decade behind, but they're going tech heavy. Look what that did for Ireland. We may not go to war with India, but we will probably battle economically in the same way we did with Japan in the 80s.

The US may not have access to certain treatments as jackass moralists have outlawed or limited certain branches of research.

[Privateer]

Don't worry. The only ones who prefer China to the US are Chinese, and not even all of them.

[blaseblasphemener]

Since when is Indian religiously fractured? That's the first I've heard of that. They have the largest minority group in the world, 160,000,000 muslims, and it doesn't seem like much of a problem for them.

Anyway, India only became a open economy in the early 90s. Before that, they modelled themselves on the planned economy of the Soviet Union, and aimed for 3% growth every year. They still have a huge civil service from those by-gone days. They have the benefit of rule of law and of democratic values, as well as other remnants of being part of the British Empire, including have English as a commonly spoken language. And, as mentioned earlier in this thread, they have gone the route of technological development, instead of the Industrial based economy that is bringing the Chinese environmental nightmares.

I'm putting my money on India, and in particular, companies that are tapped into it, like GE.

[thepeel]

[Kuros]

[blaseblasphemener]

[Czarjorge]