I was taken aback by something that Hu said.

[Yollam]

He mentioned something about "China's 1.3 billion people", and it occurred to me that the .3 in that number represents a group of people equivalent in size to THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. That just blows my mind, that we are a decimal in comparison to China, and in the coming years that will be the case even more as China becomes the world's economic behemoth and the US diminishes in importance.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Entire US population = chinese rounding error

Ha ha ha!

[XemaSab]

2. You're cracking us up here!

Again, welcome to DU! :bounce:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Thanks, I'll be here all week.

Be sure to tip the waitresses.

[XemaSab]

10. Awww..... please stay longer!

:bounce:

[Yollam]

5. Last I had heard they were just a billion.

I thought they had strict population controls in place...

They added a whole America worth of people while I wasn't looking.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. It was a billion years and years ago.

And while they've got strict population control, how do expect to keep a billion people from fucking?

[Tesha]

22. Abstinence education? ;-)

> And while they've got strict population control, how do expect to
> keep a billion people from fucking?

Abstinence education? ;-)

Tesha

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. There you go.

The silver chinese finger trap thing.

[leftchick]

27. the chastity belt police?

:rofl:

[cantstandbush]

15. Think where they would be WITHOUT strict birth control!!

Now that should blow your mind..

[Donald Ian Rankin]

30. Look at India in ten or twenty year's time if you want to know.

Their population isn't much smaller, and it's growing much faster. I don't expect it to be pretty.

[malaise]

25. Do you have that amusing video

Hello America. I'd love to see it again.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

32. Ha ha ha, America.

I haven't got it, no. I think the Sundance site has it.

[malaise]

36. Thanks n/t

[MADem]

3. So, in terms of population, Hu's on first!!! n/t

[Richard D]

12. And What the Fuck . . .

. . . is in the white house.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

14. Now you did it !

Gotta wipe V&T from the monitor.

[Richard D]

37. !!!

:woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl:
:rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo:

[fooj]

4. What REALLY frightens me is their military capabilities...

:scared:

Consider the SIZE of THEIR military!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. About 4'2" right?

(Ok, I hope that wasn't a terrible joke. I mean it in no racist way whatsoever, but merely as lighthearted and impulsive in response. Please forgive me.)

[Inland]

11. Well, actually, YOU shouldn't be scared of PRC military.

While it has plenty of troops, the PRC just doesn't have the means to project power very far past their own borders, militarily. Taiwan, be scared. Vietnam, be scared. Us, not so much.

[Yollam]

17. It takes very few nuke-tipped ICBMs...

...to gain an awful lot of bargaining leverage.

[Inland]

19. PRC has had those since the sixties, and it's given it none.

I'm more impressed by their ability to lend us money and our need to borrow it.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

24. They own us

Oh, god, do they own us.

And we're NEVER gonna get out from under that debt. Worse than MBNA.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

29. Fractionally worse than MBNA.

By a whisker.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Yeah, there are a lot of Chinese in China

That's news?

What matters far more to me right now is that THEY OWN US.

They own our debt, and we're so far up their asses, we're never gonna see daylight.

Thanks a lot, Richard Nixon/Henry Kissinger. If Nixon weren't dead, I'd kill him myself for this, and Kissinger, well, he's the world's worst war criminal who's never been prosecuted. I hope there's an afterlife with a really special Hell for that motherfucker.

[Yollam]

13. I didn't say it was news.

It's just that that juxtaposition, between their .3 and ours was rather striking. And part of the reason it's striking is the economic power, and the future ecological devastation those millions represent once they start to emulate our wasteful lifestyles...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. Yep

We're screwed.

[fooj]

16. That's telling it like it is...

If Nixon weren't dead, I'd kill him myself for this

Peace.

[Inland]

20. Do you remember Doonesbury, when Duke was ambassador?

to China? He's writing a report to Washington and can't think of a word besides "teeming".

[OldLeftieLawyer]

23. Oh, Duke..........

I wish HST were still with us. Imagine what he'd be writing now ........

Damn.

That's still the word: "teeming."

We're screwed.

[Neil Lisst]

21. their economy is growing at 10%, so use the multiplier on that

and see how far they are advancing during the Bush years.

Why? They flood us with cheap, basically subsidized goods, and keep their currency low enough we cannot play catch up.

[bananas]

26. There was a really good flash animation about that

and I hate flash animations, so it was really good.

[kurth]

31. Which explains why China's neighbors live in fear

Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

China and India are examples of why we must have population control.

[Yollam]

35. Here in Japan, we're more nervous about N. Korea.

I'm baffled by the Koizumi government's sycophancy towards Bush and ambivalence toward China.

If anything, Japan should be making inroads to closer ties with Beijing, as the US is just about used up.

[lonestarnot]

33. 2.5 million enlisted

[KT2000]

34. This is what Wes Clark

was saying during the election but it sure did not resonate with the people. China is the new economic promise of the planet. India comes in second.
The US consumer has peaked - it is on to more fertile markets!