Indi,

This financial crisis is deeply structural and one that China is not just going to bounce back from. The housing bubble has crashed taking with it most of China's citizen's investments. The stock market is falling, unemployment is rising and government revenue is shrinking. This combined with the flight of foreign companies and the crash of the Chinese bond markets is not something the CCP is going to walk off.

The predictions are that China is going to follow the same path as Japan in 1990 with small or zero growth for a decade especially as the population rapidly ages. China is at the zenith of its power and is no match for the US now or probably this century.

shadowminister,
Perhaps but do not dismiss the resolve of a people to whom discipline & pride is more important than money. To the Chinese money is a great benefit, to the Westerners it's everything !
There are many Westerners among the Chinese but they're heavily outnumbered.
By Westerner I don't mean white, I mean people who adapted Western mentality !

Indy,

Your characterisation of the Chinese is a wildly inaccurate stereotype. The Chinese are very interested in money and the level of corruption shows that they very much put themselves first.

shadowminister,
You seem to base your characterisation of the average Chinese citizen on the character of the average Western bureaucrat mentality !
The Chinese mentality regarding diligence blows the average Westerner out of the water.

Armchair Critic- I'll check out the reactor video with Bill Gates- Thanks. I looked at the Blinken video- he seems far left Marxist- as well as the other two video links that you forwarded recently.

http://youtu.be/flL6ZcS_czs
http://youtu.be/2JDk8x0pIdU
http://youtu.be/IGCIg4BbxQU

Jackson Hinkle
Glenn Greenwald
Brian Berletic- aka- Tony Cartalucci

If they are Marxist I can understand their support of Chinese Dengism.
But it's good to know what the other team are up to.. but...

Canem Malum,
Cheers for the links, self explanatory !