In 1950, Mao promised his people that China would stand equal to the world’s major powers. That day is close. After the Soviet Empire collapsed, the United States treated the world as if it were America’s back yard. What did that get the US? 9/11, deep debt and three conflicts: Iraq, Afghanistan, and fundamentalist Islamic terrorists whose goal is to destroy America—not China—yet.
I read what Dr. Michael Economides had to say at Forbes.com, and he writes as if we must not allow China to develop into a modern nation that benefits all Chinese.
Dr. Economides is wrong. America should encourage China to globalize and modernize. Let them drink at the fountain of oil. We need China to be our equal and our ally. By encouraging China to depend on oil reserves from around the globe, they will have no choice but to be America’s partner and help police the world.
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The challenge Americans face is to keep what we already have. What America must do is switch to green energy and break our addiction to oil as soon as possible. In fact, India has the same goals that China has—to have what America has had for decades. Since China and India have more than 2 billion people, let them share the wealth, and the responsibility that comes with it should be larger too.
See Volting all of China into the 21st Century
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the author of the award winning My Splendid Concubine and writes The Soulful Veteran and Crazy Normal.
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