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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12869 Post contents: @ Allen, "China is the new economic, industrial and military superpower" Obviously you've never spent much time there. China is a disunited basket case of a state, composed of myriad regional statelets governed arbitrarily by LOCAL economic and military warlords over whom the central government has very little real control. "The mountains are high, the emperor is far away". China is a continental empire pretending to be a unified state. As for its economy, it's a mirage and a disaster in progress; another great famine is a very real potential danger in the near future; and the Communist Party (which is by no means united except by its habit of lying and stealing) has never ceased to lie about its "economic" data. Heaven only knows why so many Westerners still allow themselves to be conned by the fake economic figures concocted by the Chinese government(s) (plural because the central and provincial powers are, well, plural.) The best the world can hope for is that China doesn't explode into civil war or another Cultural Revolution. China's weakness (including the weakness of the moral fiber of most of its people) is what makes it so potentially dangerous. Sent at: 2009 01 07