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The Chinese have no interest in the USA failing. The Chinese with a per capita GDP of $4500 (ours is about $45000) a year can't afford to consume there own output, the need our market.
That was last year. This year ('09), our market will be much less useful. Chinese economic growth is already forecast to fall precipitously in '09, and will not only fail to maintain double-digit growth, but will drop below even Beijing's supposedly desired 8%. I'll add that the numbers you've quoted are meaningless for purposes of this discussion. For one thing, there are significant differences in the distribution of wealth between the two populations. For another, the numbers on both sides are heavily skewed as a result of government manipulation and nondisclosure. They simply don't mean the same thing, and even if they did, you couldn't believe either side to tell the truth.
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The bigest reason for them not wanting us to fail is that we are their source of innovation.
How much innovation is there in a $10 set of screwdrivers? Or a $350 television? Or a $12 kitchen steamer? Or $30 bluejeans? Those are the types of consumer products that have built the Chinese economy. Didn't you see the links I posted earlier? The unrest brewing now in southern China is the result of toy factories shutting down. Before that, it was shoe factories. Tomorrow it will probably be bicycles and handbags.
Above all else, you can believe Beijing will do whatever it takes to maintain order and general public satisfaction with the government. It's only a matter of time before they discard the West as having outlived its usefulness.
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