How should the world and the US deal with a rising China, both as an economic powerhouse and as a superpower?

Question

With China's recent extraordinary growth, it has been able to interweave itself as a vital part of much of the world’s economy. With this, it is building up and modernizing much of its military and is even starting to catch up to the US in select fields of R&D. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, the US has lived a relatively cozy life, by being uncontested by any other nation in the world for its military and economic might. How do you think the world and the US should deal/accept this second superpower, and do you see such an event causing a second cold war? If so, who do you think would succeed more and why?

Answer 1

Deal with them....with a long handled spoon.

Answer 2

It is impossible to prevent the inevitable. Like the US one day became the world's superpower, and was met with hostility from European superpowers, China will do the same and eventually even outpace the US economy. This is one of the reasons why I'm learning Chinese (Mandarin), to keep in pace with the future world economy.

Answer 3

Not by holding them down, if thats what ur getting at. China is using unfair practices to get ahead, thats true. And America has done nothing to address these issues other than talk. Talk is not only cheap, it most often goes on as ignored. China doesnt care about Americas talk, and until we show a little backbone the unfair practices will continue.

Answer 4

Canada.,Russia, Japan (somewhat), U.K have been tradeing with China for some time now. Oil , and food are the only two main concerns they have and since they are buying it like the rest of the world I don't see a threat.
But to be safe we could learn the lingo.

Answer 5

china isn't hostile towards the united states, so if anyone started a war it would be the u.s probably, but thats not gonna happen, two superpowers can live together in the same world without trying to destroy each other

Answer 6

China has a long ways to go to come anywhere near the strength of the US in both military and economy.. California alone has a bigger economy than China and a lot less people to take care of.No worries here

Answer 7

Only solution is to keep ahead both technically and scientifically and maintain the advantage on defence systems and related weapons.

Answer 8

We could crush the economic expansion in china if our government wasn't such lieing piece of S#*T!
There are systems being used in other countries and a state that if implemented country wide would bring an ecomonic boom that has never been seen before and likely never will again.


The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

This would increase everyone's income by $50,000 p/yr

Hoover Institution
Kuwait:

Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz



It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.

This would lower the citizens monetary outgoing expences to almost nothing.

1st90 days by ExOrder
Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska
End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done
Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists, take the money out of politics
Make graft illegal, mandatory jail time
Close the DOE, save the money
Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military
Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money
Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals, get them on the tax roles not us
Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs
End Nuclear power
Build electric powered roads, make millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean the polluted water with clean electric power
Return America to 50% of world’s economy

This would end our oil dependence, clean up the evironment, balance the budget, and cut massive amounts from the feds budget to pay off the debt with.

Put all these things together and America financially and ecomonically crushs China's growth and dominates the world ecomonically and financially for centuries.
Do the mouse balls polliticians have the nads to do this? HELL NO!!
But 1 man with a real backbone in the Presidents chair could get this rolling this in one term and have it coming to life in a second term. It would take someone who when senators or reps got in the way would just issue them a draft notice and have some big Marine MP's escort them straight to bootcamp. I think that would make the other's nuts shrivel-up and shut them or they could be drafted too.

Answer 9

China owns the US.
China is economically more stable, they have created allies through economic trade, and we have alienated the rest of the world through arrogance and war mongering.

Answer 10

i agree whit mel18