Foxy,

The similarities between the USSR and China are that the demise of both is due to inefficient/incompetent central planning.

Their ability to retaliate may presently be considerable, but is more likely to wane over the coming decades.

shadow minister,

The following link may be of interest:

http://economist.com/news/21609649-china-becomes-again-worlds-largest-economy-it-wants-respect-it-enjoyed-centuries-past-it-does-not

shadow minister,

I again left out a crucial bit:

http://economist.com/news/essays/21609649-china-becomes-again-worlds-largest-economy-it-wants-respect-it-enjoyed-centuries-past-it-does-not

shadow minister,

I found the link from the Economist a very
interesting read. I hope that you shall enjoy it as well.

Only a scumbag would like to see a fifth of the Worlds population (China) fail. China despite a century of wars, exploitation and mismanagement has shown that it can right itself and provide for its people. Not perfect by any means China has its internal problems, as well as envious external nations which are trying to bring it down.

Pauliar,

You really are a nasty little scumbag troll.

The CCP kills 1000s of its own citizens every year, oppresses millions of minorities, has a judiciary simply to rubber-stamp arbitrary arrests and confiscations and continuously spies on its citizens and killed roughly 50 million people in its cultural revolution.

China emits more GHG than the USA, India and Russia together and is still increasing. It threatens all of its neighbours and is trying to annex territory from them by force.

It is the closest to a fascist state that the world has seen for decades and is in no way a good global citizen. Only a moron couldn't see that.