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[Khairan]

So I'm not the only one thinking that?


The way money is flowing into China, but is only trickling out has me worried.


Not really. If muslims in the middle east think the US is bad, just wait till they get a load of Communist China :confused_smile:

Muslims will be fine with Chinese hegemony so long as it doesn't result in war on their lands and blind support of Israel. You might call that short-sighted, and maybe it is, but I think it's the truth of it. Right now, China is already seeking to make allies in the Muslim world. It's working to build relations with Iran at a time when the U.S. is too stupid to see that it no longer has the ability to make the world jump at a command. It should also not be lost on ANY of us that China has done nothing to stop North Korea's political ambitions. Why is it that although China is their neighbor, it is the U.S. that looks bad when Korea gets missiles? Hmmm....
I think the world is going to change very radically over the next couple of centuries. We may not live to see the half of it, but I predict that the "nation-state" is a dying idea. As information, money, and human resources flow increasingly freely between countries, political boundaries as we have known them for the past several hundred years (also an idea invented by the West) will stop meaning much. Oh, to be a fly on the wall...