From The Guardian:
David Miliband today described China as the 21st century's "indispensable power" with a decisive say on the future of the global economy, climate change and world trade.
The foreign secretary predicted that over the next few decades China would become one of the two "powers that count", along with the US, and Europe could emerge as a third only if it learned to speak with one voice.
The remarks, in a Guardian interview, represented the most direct acknowledgement to date from a senior minister, or arguably from any western leader, of China's ascendant position in the global pecking order.
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My Comment: David Miliband talks like a tourist who visits China and makes comments to make his hosts happy. I have had the good fortune of being a constant visitor to China since the 1980s, and I do not stay in high price hotels but in the regions outside of Shanghai and Beijing.
Life is very different out there, and to compare it to the U.S. is stupid and blind to what is the reality of China. The reality of China is this .... pollution, corruptio
The remarks, in a Guardian interview, represented the most direct acknowledgement to date from a senior minister, or arguably from any western leader, of China's ascendant position in the global pecking order.
Read more ....
My Comment: David Miliband talks like a tourist who visits China and makes comments to make his hosts happy. I have had the good fortune of being a constant visitor to China since the 1980s, and I do not stay in high price hotels but in the regions outside of Shanghai and Beijing.
Life is very different out there, and to compare it to the U.S. is stupid and blind to what is the reality of China. The reality of China is this .... pollution, corruption, exploitation, poverty .... and .... if I had time .... my personal list describing China will take me the entire night. China has a long way to go before it can even remotely be called a super power .... and it can only happen if the real super power in the world (i.e. the U.S.) implodes because of Government economic and financial mismanagement.
If China is to be the future .... count me out.
Read more ....
My Comment: David Miliband talks like a tourist who visits China and makes comments to make his hosts happy. I have had the good fortune of being a constant visitor to China since the 1980s, and I do not stay in high price hotels but in the regions outside of Shanghai and Beijing.
Life is very different out there, and to compare it to the U.S. is stupid and blind to what is the reality of China. The reality of China is this .... pollution, corruption, exploitation, poverty .... and .... if I had time .... my personal list describing China will take me the entire night. China has a long way to go before it can even remotely be called a super power .... and it can only happen if the real super power in the world (i.e. the U.S.) implodes because of Government economic and financial mismanagement.
If China is to be the future .... count me out.