India and China? not in 100 years they wont

Let me digress; I must agree with kkkk and Tao- China itself doesn’t even have the desire to be a superpower. Such endeavour would almost be impossible as the world is already on a fixed scale slanted towards the benefit of America. But I hope that I only think so for a lack of perspective or that I’m looking at this from too narrow a spectrum.

However, I must add that, despite hoping that China and India could actually take over as superpowers, I believe the western media had been using the “China becoming the super power” slogan as a scare tactic braodcasted to steepen their contempt for China- much like the “Red Terror” campaign in the fifties to ingrain fear in the minds of some submissive Americans enslaved by the television.

Thanks to Michael Moore, and many other independent thinkers, I truly hope that maybe one day America would loosen and break free from the grip of its corporate sponsors and truly rise as a nation of democracy.

The last superpower who lost its superpower status was UK, and the transition happened in the 1920s, 1920s folks, was long time ago, by then 80% of the human world was undeveloped, Germany merely made it to a country 20 yrs ago, what makes you think the United States, current world superpower would let this even happen again?!

China, is a cheap labor based export-oriented economy, if vast majority of its people get rich, the economy dies. You can’t become richer than your boss right? simple as that, the Chinese live on selling goods to the americans, if the sellers in total are richer than the buyers, don’t you think demand of chinese goods would collapse as the price will be unbelievably high? economics 101 says china, if maintain its current growth pattern, cannot be richer than united states, not to mention to replace it as the next super power.

I don’t know much about India, aside from the fact that it was a british colony, and once break free, try to leapfrog from an extremely poor 3rd world country to the first class passenger of the earth without solid industry growth, let me tell you about the essential reality of business, if you sell psuedo goods such as service, it won’t last long, eventually the bubble caught you, because you are not producing anything, look at the internet bubble in the early 2000s, and that the housing bubble which cost the notorious global recession.

United States, in another hand, has been maintaining its super power status for almost a century now, there’s a reason for that, United States changes thru time, it had become the world factary in the 1920s thru 1950s, when industry is the best catalyst for domestic economy, then in the 1970s it successfully tranformed its economy to service-oriented, and moved all its pollution industry to the 3rd world, and take benefit from cheap labors from all over the 3rd world. China ofcoz is no exception, cheap slave workers of china have a boss, and that my friend is corporate america. I’m just saying, the United States made the most right bets for the past 90 yrs, and there’s no sign of its losing this brilliance.

It takes the rich to make huge mistakes to become poor, but huge luck even a miracle for the extremely poor to become rich, think about that, we as avg. daily working people, want someday to slave our boss, how big of a chance do we stand?

and then you also say that China is a communist-capitalist nation. What makes you think China is not as corrupt if not further. One of the main chinese principles is to earn money and they will do that in anyway. Having lived myself in China, Singapore and Hong Kong I can say that for a fact. Besides more than three quarters of china’s population are uneducated and are living in poverty and starving. Don;t mistake that for india. Sure there is poverty prevalent in both countries but more so in China. Also Indians do have an averge higher number if educated people, whereas in China due to excessive overpopulation not so much. This is not their fault and i’m sure with more foreign investments in their country they will catch up in no time.

Also China thrives on others investing in their country. If investers pulled out many people would not be able to feed themselves, e.g olympics provided money for every lay person who can perform good gymnastics.

In addition, India is a country rich in natural resources with moderate climate conditions allowing enough food growth to support its population. Whereas the a lot of China is taken up by that massive Gobi Dessert, allowing impossible living conditions.

Most importantly, India is a more self-sufficient country then China. Being left to itself India has risen drmamtically With the economy soaring at 8 percent a year and this is all due to India itself, no one else. But as I have mentioned before CHina gets a lot of its boost from foreign investment. However they are not to be underestimated.

It can be fairly concluded that both India AND CHina will emerge as superpowers…however which one emerges first I believe is India hands down…But everyone is entitled to their own opinion and we should just let time take its course to show the actual result.