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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/11/09

[T]he Chinese, even more than we, are well aware that America’s moment may be passing. The biggest holders of U.S. debt are Chinese state-owned companies. No wonder they’re resentful of our spy ship trawling their coastline: after all, they paid for it. What ought to be worrying the Obama administration is that the interest they’re getting on their loan may not be enough to cover their national pride deficit. We may have the mightiest military in the world, but if the Chinese stop buying our debt, then the whole structure of the American warfare-welfare state will come tumbling down with astonishing rapidity...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14384


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Asia Times
by Spengler

12/01/08

America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States. Thirty-six million Chinese children study piano today, compared to only 6 million in the United States.[2] The numbers understate the difference, for musical study in China is more demanding.It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos - making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. Watch out, Americans - a generation from now, your kid is going to fetch coffee for a Chinese boss...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JL02Ad01.html


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Independent [UK]
by Hamish McRae

10/22/08

On present trends China will take over from the US as the world’s largest economy in about 20 years’ time. Of course that is not certain but if the Goldman Sachs economic growth model continues to reflect correctly the way the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are gaining growth vis-à-vis the present developed nations, something like that will happen. That raises a stark question for the US: is it really wise to be so in hock to your greatest commercial rival, the only country that has threatened your economic supremacy for more than a century?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-america-must-live-within-its-means-968552.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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For China these days it seems that nothing -- not rising energy prices; not sanctions aimed at its more unsavoury business partners, Burma and Sudan; not even the prospect of a nuclear Iran -- can curb its thirst for oil.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42989


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CNN

03/03/08

The Chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites, according to the latest U.S report on China’s military power. The annual report from the Pentagon to Congress says China’s total military spending in 2007 was between $97 billion and $139 billion, but it is hard to tell exactly how much was spent and on what...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Der Abschuss des Spionagesatelliten muss auch auf dem Hintergrund der strikten Weigerung der US-Regierung gesehen werden, ein UN-Abkommen zur Begrenzung der Rüstung im Weltraum auf den Weg zu bringen.

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