Just the opposite. Language is also a power (why do you think English is the predominent language used to promote the post-WW2 sub-culture?) and I will not surrender.
The way things are going at the moment it may be a good idea for us in the West to learn the Chinese language if we don't already speak it because in the next fifty years China will become the Worlds predominant power.
This is why I spent 5 years living there from 1996-2001. I can speak very decent Mandarin Chinese now. And decent Spanish too. I'm set! My English sucks though
This is why I spent 5 years living there from 1996-2001. I can speak very decent Mandarin Chinese now. And decent Spanish too. I'm set! My English sucks though
Ni zai yong hai ou xiang ji ma
Wo yi qian yong bu tai hao!
我 以 前 用 不 太 好!
What has always amazed me about Chinese entrepreneurs is their ability to make little things and sell them cheaply and still make money. I can buy replacement lens caps from Chinese sellers on eBay for a small fraction of what I would pay from a US seller. I have bought m42 adapters inexpensively, and they have been of decent quality. In short, the chinese can manufacture and profit from items "too small" to appeal to western manufacturers.
Quality products are still manufactured in the west, all of my cars are either American or German and two of them are manufactured in the US with German engines.
Are you sure that many of the parts of those German and American cars are not made in China?
I think the cheap plastic parts that break are. Most of the heavy-duty parts are manufactured domestically (tires, wheels, alternator, transmission). The radio is probably oriental.
Also, a lot of parts are now shipped in from Mexico.
Much of the fear of the Chinese economy parallels the great economic fears of Japan in the early 80's - Japan didn't end up owning the U.S.. China's current growth is impressive, but with a population 5 times that of the U.S., their economy still has a long way to go.
I think they risk implosion before achieving anything like monetary or military hegemony. They're stretched awfully thin now. China is a nation of disparate ethnic elements forcefully glued together. Here in the US our sense of history lasts about fifteen minutes. In other parts of the world they think in terms of centuries and even longer. Without trying to stir up a current controversy, when we here in the West think of the Chinese picking on Tibet, they might remember when Tibet was picking on them. But to put it another way - lots and lots of promising Chinese students are sent to the US to study. Even back when it was party policy to preach annihilation of the West, the children of their dictators were living right around here, eating American food, studying in American schools, making friends just like everyone else. It's all a very complex fluid dynamic.
But isn't the rust belt of the US due to the fact that metal smelting and forging all went to China. I think you'll find they make a lot more than cheap plastic parts for your cars.
I'm not sure on this but I think they make almost everything. And the quality is based on what the company ordering is willing to pay. They do make quality stuff.
Huge number of top Chinese cadres have citizenship and passports in the west too now. Why do you suppose that is? In fact it's the topic of many Chinese discussion forums who are wondering why this is so and calling these people unpatriotic. I think it's very telling to see what the "insiders" are thinking by their actions...
Not sure on this but weren't a lot of these people from Hong Kong who were buying up real estate in Canada and the west. Trying to protect their money when Hong Kong again became Chinese territory in 1999.
Even if it's not them, I'm sure the nouveau riche from China are trying to protect themselves from the whims of the communist party much like the Russian nouveau riche always have insecurities about the whims of Putin.
Not sure on this but weren't a lot of these people from Hong Kong who were buying up real estate in Canada and the west. Trying to protect their money when Hong Kong again became Chinese territory in 1999.
Even if it's not them, I'm sure the nouveau riche from China are trying to protect themselves from the whims of the communist party much like the Russian nouveau riche always have insecurities about the whims of Putin.
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