It is not healthy to be dependent on our enemies as we are on Arab countries for oil and China for borrowing. The dollar is declining and our debts are growing beyond reasonable limits. We have precisely the wrong ideology governing this country at the same time. We have never been more vulnerable in our history since the American Revolution. November 2010 will be the fulcrum on which this country turns, one way or another. Either the Left will destroy us or we will destroy them.

Now that we have the global economy, and the left has been spending the US Government into oblivion for decades, recently accompanied by the right, China has been "supporting" the excessive spending, and in turn, US Companies have been bailing from the States, and everyone and their CEO have been running to China (and others) to set up their overseas tax evasion business moves and expansions...
So now, some years into the total communist support structure, the USA finds itself in an even bigger dilemma, that's besides being openly business friendly oriented to the rising communist "enemy"...
It now finds itself in a position where it MUST CONTINUE its depraved support in China, by any means, since that growing economy, unburdened by the DC left eggheads and bureaucrats, needs to continue to blaot up bigger and bigger, in order that DC may continue it's out of control insane spending sprees...
ROFL
I laugh because what else can one do...
DC must now kiss the commie economy even harder, and as they do, they rape the USA of it's economic base - they whine in Congress about offshoring, but behind the doors of power they are all pitching in for China's continued growth at as outrageous a pace as possible, because it butters up their spending spree bread !
Welcome to The New World Order - the order whereby our own DC politicians pump up the commie foe so they can continue to spend, spend spend !
Just wonderful...

As for quality, you'll notice that Taiwan and Singapore as well as Hong Kong--all Han-dominated societies produce top quality products. In the 1950s, Japan made crappy products too--something alluded too in the first Back to the Future film when Professor Brown saw the time machine was filled with Japanese-made components.

Taiwan in the 1970s and the 1980s made crappy products as did Hong Kong...not any more and there is no reason to believe China won't in the future as well. Taiwan has already moved much of its chip production over to China.

Outside of protecting its borders--Korea, India, the Soviet Union, China hasn't engaged in warfare, it has been foreign powers that have attacked China--The British, French, Americans, Japanese, China has always been the victim, not the perpetrator.

Chinese middle and upper class men will have no problems finding brides, it will be the peasant men in places like Hunan and Yunan. And few American women I know would want to live as a peasant women in a village some place on the out skirts of Changsha.

What you are seeing is the abduction and selling of women to be brides--a number over the years have been arrested for this and with most crimes in China, this brings the sentence of death on those convicted.

The greatest fear most serious western economists have about China is that it will duplicate Japans economic rise multiplied by it's size.
This is not possible, China's culture is different from Japans. Japanese workers would rather cut their guts out then produce a worthless product. Chinese workers say "it's quitin time! Beer & tities!".
Chinese workers don't share Japanese workers sense of quality. China's current economic rise is part & parcel of the economic bubble infecting the west, as the west crashes, so will China.
No matter who likes or dislikes it, the USA is STILL the dog & the rest of the world is the tail.
This will lead China's leaders into dangerous territory eventualy, as they face civil war, the only choice they will have is external war. This also answers their "Male" problem nicely.
China (and other major powers) have often solved problems by starting a war and allowing the "problem" to take front & center thus solving two problems at the same time.
when it comes to cannon fodder, China's number 1 again.

can’t do anything to stop China’s advance. Corruption will slow its growth, the gender issue will cause it problems, but it is likely to continue its economic advance. We are following polices that slow our economic advance and corruption plays its role here as well. That it will continue to have significantly lower per capita income isn’t solace. As China becomes the largest consumer of autos, new electronic gadgets etc. they will acquire monopsony power which, like the Japanese, they will use to extract technology and price advantages from the west. Unlike the Japanese, when they revalue, they will use their enhanced purchasing power to acquire resources and technology. We must get our economic house in order while we can. The Chinese are an amazing people, but they won’t be a benign hegemonic power as we tried to be.

This is about as ignorant a column as I have read in some time. The long list of things bigger in China than in the US is of no interest whatsoever. With 4 times as many people as in the US, China quite unsurprisingly has become a larger car market. Probably it also is a larger rice market. How about clothing? Furniture? Pens and pencils. How about who gives a damn. The last time I looked, China's income *per person* (a sensible measure of welfare) was 1/14 that of the US. China still does not have private ownership of land. China is terribly polluted and getting worse. The US government has never defaulted on its debt, so it is unlikely that the Chinese holdings are going to be worthless.

If this is the best Galen can do on economic topics, he should refrain from writing about them in the future because he has absolutely nothing useful to say.

China has millions more of men without any prospect of finding brides. One can predict that all that testosterone will be unleashed on the world with young soldiers seeking women in Asia and the rest of the world. Only conquest can assuage the primordial drive to procreate.

A dispassionate observer from another planet might make the observation that China is ascending while America is declining. Maybe it's a toss-up which country will be the first to be torn apart--the expansionists in China or the deconstructionists in America.

Knowing all of this, and seeing what is really happening around the world, I have only one question to ask.

Where are all of our elected officials and hirelings who support a strong and thriving America?

Yes, my attitude is - screw the rest of the world - let's get America back on its feet.

This is our country and we are chartered to maintain and support it.

So, my comments to our elected officials is this - if you don't support a stronger Constitutional America, and if you're not working to that end - I'll work toward your defeat because I don't want you in office.

And, BTW, that goes especially for you, Mr. Usurper Obama. You represent the most prominent and obvious criminal activity we see in America today and you have to go.

You might want to mention Mr.Galen that the majority of the exports coming from China are materials that are made by foreign companies in China. Not to mention, but the majority of exporting companies operating in China are foreign. Nowhere mentioned is the fact that China's percapita income remains far behind the west. China may be booming but the profits so often are going elsewhere! All of this information can be found by reading any responsible literature about Modern China or by simply asking a Chinese person! It's not that hard!

"And American young women will be only too happy to leave the USA behind for life in the country that will rule the 21st century. "

American women, once they see the filthly reality of China away from the flashly downtowns of Shanghai and Beijing, will beat feet outta there. Once you've been raised with a good old American Standard toilet, squating over a porclein trench ain't so nice an idea!
Been there, done that, glad I live in the USA!

This article left me a little confused: On the first half of it Mr. Galen paints us the image of an economic juggernaut; only to end it with an image of a clay-feet colossus. Which is it Rich?
Then, there is the matter with the numbers: Following the “logic” described in the article; In Rich’s world 1,300 million people buying 13.6 million cars is superior to 307 million people buying 10 million cars. And you say it is liberals who use “fuzzy” math?
Simple arithmetic tells me that for the Chinese to merely MATCH the Americans, they should be buying 42.35 million cars. Following Mr. Galen’s thought we could say that a household of 5, making $100,000 is better off than a household of 1 making “only” $50,000. Whatever happened to the “per capita” concept?
Please, next time, give it more thought before hitting the “Submit” button…

Familiar with that shortage of Chinese women now causing young men to halve difficulty finding brides?

Within a few years, Chinese travel companies will be offering 'go to USA for cheap, pretty American brides' tours. By then, the exchange rate will have these bachelors renting full floors at the Four Season in LA and NYC. And American young women will be only too happy to leave the USA behind for life in the country that will rule the 21st century.

[in other words, USA's best days are behind it, far behind it. And it is all our (your!) fault]

hina doesn't have enough chickens to feed the progresive sisters

HeHeHe....Progressive women,thats funny.

I wish we could send all of THE BLACK TAXER PARTY to China.No more liberals,WOW.

Or maybe we could send them to Canada and let the liberals bankrupt that country.

Na,I don't think China would take them.(the women)They would take one look at Hillary Clinton nude and send the hole bunch back.

WHO DAT

ROB

Good analysis and recommendations.

We should sell progressive women from blue states to China to settle our debts with that country.

Who can their military conquer?

If they go north to Siberia,they get nuked by Russia.

If they go west to India,they get nuked by India.

If they go south to Vietnam,well,been there done that and look what happened to us.

That just leaves east to America. And the old USSR couldn't do that with all their might.

Personally though,I would give them California,Oregon,and Washington State in exchange for all our debt.

They can even have Mexico,for free, if they build a wall at their expence.

GO SAINTS

WHO DAT

ROB from Louisiana

Perhaps the Chinese will have to use the military its building to conquer foreign lands and take their women, much like was done centuries ago.

In some places it is 120 boys to 100 girls--Hainan.

I don't see the homosexuality issue, the duty of sons to marry and have children to carry on the family.

Taiwan has similar gender issues, but not as bad and unlike China, Taiwan men can import women--mostly from SE Asia...Vietnam and the like, who make up most of the "New Taiwanese," but some non-Asians make up the New Taiwanese, even white Americans (but usually reversed, marrying Taiwanese women instead of Taiwanese men).

The "bare branches" is going to be a big issue as are the others I listed moving forward.

I'm particularly intrigued by the lopsided gender imbalance that is about to reach critical mass in China. Most estimates place 13 boys for every ten girls born (and kept) there. Imagine three of every 13 men you know being unable to find even the most undesirable female companion. This is a very big deal and I doubt that China will want to balance the population through war during a time of supposed economic prosperity.

Frankly, I wonder how this will affect the homosexual demographic within that nation. It might well put the nature/nurture controversy to rest. Your thoughts?

I am hopeful for the day that China cuts off the money to the US and forces us to face reality. It can't happen soon enough.

I, and many others I know, are giddy with delight at the prospect of seeing Obama voters cut off from the wealth we transfer to them so they don't have to work.

And we are ready for them.

It won't be long. Mathematics cannot be trumped even by messiahs and other gods on Earth. In the real world when subtractions are continually made from zero a limit is reached and then the subtractions stop.

This article and others like it remind me of an article in Foreign Affairs back in the 1990s and in it was an illustration of a giant black dragon on the wall (China as seen by the west) and western businessmen throwing money to the dragon and behind them, a tiny little dragon whose shadow was being projected on the wall--the real China.

China is a long long way from matching the US at anything and it has many very real problems--if you had a choice, you'd rather be the US at this point than China.

The CCP has recently said that the widespread corruption inside the Chinese government threatens to destroy the entire government, SOEs continue to suck billions of Yuan from the productive economy and on and on.

There are real reforms China needs to enact that it hasn't--because they are either unable or unwilling, which Gordan Chang wrote about in his book the Coming Collapse of China--he gave China 10 years to enact these changes before it went through a Soviet-like collapse, that was in 2001, it is now 2010...tick tock, tick tock.

In five years, China as we know it today might not even exist. If this was 1906, would you assume in 5 years thousands of years of dynastic imperial rule in China would be over...things happen fast there...on October 10, 1911 the Wuchang uprising began, by January 1, 1912, the Qing dynasty was no more.

China is the 2nd (or third if you count the EU)largest economy because it has the largest number of people, 4 times that of the US.

Now the rest of the story as Paul Harvey used to say...

Chinese banks are using western standards bankrupt and it would not take much for its entire banking system to collapse, while China's transformation from 1978 to now is miraculous and has the second most number of millionaires and billionaires on earth, behind the US, it also has extreme pockets of poverty with millions living in poverty and with per capita incomes lower than Haiti living on $2 and $3 a day. Income distribution is as malapportioned as it was before the 1949 revolution and even a short drive out of the boom areas like Shenzhen and Shanghai will show you Haiti-like poverty...even inside Shanghai itself--China's richest administrative division.

Many of China's rivers have run dry and many of the ones that still flow are so polluted the water can't even be used for industrial uses. Linfen in Shanxi is so polluted that if you air dry your clothes (a typical Chinese practice) they will be black before they dry, one of the most polluted cities on earth and others are nearly as bad--Lanzhou, Harbin, etc.

The sex ratios thanks to the stupid one-Child policy has been so perverted that the last time it was this bad, in the 1850s it sparked the Nein Rebellion which left millions dead.

Peasant unrest is an almost daily occurrence, with the protests more organized and often well-armed with the security forces and the peasants engaging in pitched battles and now as the slow down in the US economy and its effects on the boom cities like Guangzhou, now urban unrest.