China vs United States: A Visual Comparison
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As we discussed in yesterday’s post, whether the United States and China like it or not, the economic futures of both countries are intertwined. Everyone knows that China’s got more people and that its importance as an economic superpower has escalated in recent years. What you might not understand is how the differences between our countries, in economic philosophy, in population, in geography and in how the military is built and paid for ultimately play into the entire economic relationship.
For many China remains something of a mystery. In order to help compare and contrast the economic differences, we have simplified the data from the CIA World Factbook. For the exact numbers in any category, check here.
For more personal finance visualizations see: WallStats.com
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« Previous 1 2 3The US created this monster and now will have to find ways to dismantle it.
Nonetheless, the US will remain the leader of the free world for many centuries to come and China will simply become the next Soviet Union and will slowly kill itself until it becomes a democracy and renews.
The only downside is that China has all of our technology at its disposal to get it started. We invented everything and China is taking advantage of it.
LOL China a monster? It has not invaded a country like what the US did (Recall Iraq). China merely minds its own business.
China will not kill itself as long as the world needs its factories, in fact, I think the US shd be worried about falling behind in the world economy.
Asia is where the current and new growth is going to be, so my friend, you need to accept this fact.
i think you are wrong about the invasion sis. iraq was invaded by allied forces (U.N) , not just usa.
USA needs to lesse its dependency on China. ie all the manufacturing that China does. moreover there is a need for a stronger USA to counter China on both military and the economic fronts. Only then will the USA be able to retain the title of the most powerful country.it needs to diversify its trading practices and need to outsource more work to other asian contries such as India and Indonesia.
The evil chink communist “republic” will eventually have to be destroyed by American military and economic forces with a planned offensive. Once this is done the Chinese people will be free and America will be much safer with a free democracy on the other side of the Pacific. The only reason that we are not currently kicking ass in the middle east is because of people like you Linda.
Kick yourself in the ass ’stupid americanski’ … you are only country in the world which have a satan church …
“The evil chink communist “republic” will eventually have to be destroyed by American military and economic forces with a planned offensive”
Somewhere, in a boardroom in Beijing, members of the “evil chink communist” republic are sitting down discussing the destruction of the “evil yankee capitalist” American empire through military and economic means!!!!
Let the rest of us hope that crazy, hawkish militarists like “Go America” don’t get into power on either side of the pacific.
This is precisely the reason America is in deep trouble – too many mindless people like this “Go America” character !!! I wish this “Go America” character is not really an American. We just have too many junkies like this “Go America” guy who appearly knows no facts, don’t know how to use their heads, and only thing they ever learned to do is to call other people names. What a shame!
If there are more people in the US of A like “Go America”, then we are in big trouble…
He has a brain smaller than a “Pea”…
His mentality is worst than a child…
Oh, boy…we are in trouble…!!!
I do believe America’s real enemy has arrived in it’s own land, noted that it’s not PRC. beware they keep fast growing in number and keep to buy the leaved churches buildings to replace it for their prayer house, waiting they reach the majority in number, get in to the parliament to do the evil will.
Chinese descendant was came from Abraham’s other wive (refer to the Bible on the book of Genesis chapter 25), there is no reason to make PRC and American people become enemy.
If we still believe that America could play with PRC may take time to observe the Beograde incident in Yugo years ago where 2 (two) of the stealth bomber suddenly burned down but the pilots and copilots still alive, and there is no sign if both of the supremacy air force symbol were hit by any kind of weapon, but suddenly the F16 came to the PRC’s embassy and hit it, then there was a journalist died. All of the embassy’s staff and the ambassador him self had been leaved the building 5 minutes before the weapon came.