Is this the beginning of the Asian century

hammies

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If Japan, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Singapore could bury their ancient hatreds and form an economic alliance then they would dominate the US and Europe for the century. As it stands now the century will be dominated by on and off conflict between the USA and China with the rest on the sidelines, hoping that a regional war or WW3 does not break out.
 

Autoprax

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I love how the Asians are shameless racists.

A white west coaster so watches his P&Qs and you go to Asia and they JDGAF.
 
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Billy Ocean

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No

China is arrogant and think they can dictate terms to the rest of the world

They lie and steal from people who bring development to their country

this is called biting the hand that feeds you and it will limit them ultimately
 

afoaf

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culturally, China is not particularly innovative

their educational system is focused on rote memorization of facts and not
necessarily developing thought processes; creativity is not valued as much as
it is here in the united states


that's to say nothing of the fact that the government rules with an iron fist
of great vengeful pain and destruction....this is not a system that engenders
the type of national pride that raises the tide.

just the sheer size of the population creates a situation that could quickly
go sideways...look at Hong Kong...the Uighurs....Tibetans....and all these
fookers jumping out of factory windows.

they keep tightening the screws with their (big) data-driven approach to
monitoring and controlling the population...that's not a tenable strategy
in the long haul.
 
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Eastasia has a combined TFR of about 1.5. Singpore and South Korea's TFR is 1.1. China's is inflated to by the government to be about 1.6. I think Japan's is about the same. Replacement is 2.2. Eastasia is aging rapidly. Put them on prune juice.

If anything, it's going to be an African century because they have lots of kids. All of the assumptions of advanced, modern nation-states are, therefore, going to be torn up. We're heading for a very different world order. A New World Order.