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Australia: Populate and We Will PerishThis is why China will not bury America
Meanwhile, China’s “golden moment” is slipping away, and fast: 2010 will mark the apogee of its working population’s size in relation to its pool of dependents (kids and retirees). Thanks to its one-child policy, China has shrunken its demographic inputs for the last 30 years, while the share of its elderly population held steady. But from here on out, far more elders will be disgorged from the working-age cohort than those replaced on the front end, meaning China’s worker-to-dependent ratio will fall — and keep falling through at least mid-century. By 2050, China will have more retirees than America will have people. As far as unfunded mandates go, that’s one King Kong-sized monster.
More generally, understand that China’s emerging economy is just coming upon its greatest stress test, otherwise known as the shift from extensive to intensive growth. When it comes to catching up to advanced economies by copying their well-worn developmental pathways, single-party states can — under the right conditions — most definitely outperform sloppy democracies.
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Kansas residents vowed Friday to take their country back
“Both parties in Washington have an agenda to lead the United States into their New World Order,” Degener said.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Invoking the name of James Madison and brandishing copies of the U.S. Constitution, hundreds of Kansas residents vowed Friday to take their country back.
They are upset by what they see as a century of the federal government usurping the rights of states through mandates and extortion. Two prime examples cited during rallies were the pending health care reform legislation and the federal stimulus package that sent millions of dollars to states, with strings attached.
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United States is exceptional and will not melt into any larger or global union
Barack Obama’s blueprint for the United States spells trouble for American autonomy, self-governance, and defense, all key elements of national sovereignty. His undisguised indifference to repeated diminutions of that sovereignty is entirely consistent with the views of his European admirers, who, at their level, would like to see their nation-states dissolve into the European Union. Read more
North America and Europe will have to adjust to a new world order
That may have been true a few years ago, but it is no longer the case. Very quietly, China has become the world’s second-largest producer of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved at an awe-inspiring rate. If it continues on its current trajectory China will overtake the US before 2020 and the world will look very different as a result. The historical scientific dominance of North America and Europe will have to adjust to a new world order. Read more
Global Order of Great Powers
Some proponents of this view believe that the president is moving slowly but steadily toward building a somewhat more democratic global order of great powers – including emerging giants, as well as longstanding heavyweights. This would permit an increasingly cash-strapped Washington to gradually devolve some of its more costly responsibilities to other states and international institutions while retaining its “indispensable” status. Read more
American power might indeed be in decline
In the coming decade, we can expect that power will continue to be diffused rather than concentrated in the world. But, as Richard Haass noticed, “This is not all bad news for the United States: the United States still retains more capacity than any other actor to improve the quality of the international system and Washington can still manage the transition and make the world a safer place.”
The challenge for the United States, however, is to understand the limits of America’s reach and to embed America’s hard power in a new form of “soft Read more