Message from jhahn

[Anonymous]

It seems that there is growing popular opinion throughout the world that China may sharing the superpower stage with the USA. Yet I agree with Minxin Pei that China has a long way to go. I think Pei's most important point concerns education because it leads to innovation, patents, and generates the most amount of wealth. The Iphone may be built in China but it is designed in the states. Also the USA still has the best quality of engineering grads, which will spur more innovation and a democracy also opens society to more free thought and ingenuity.

I think another factor, if we are watching the superpower rat race, is amount of poverty in China and the fact that it is an aid recipient not an aid donor in many cases (Shambaugh, 2007). This poverty was definitely apparent in the movie Not One Lost and I was shocked when I found out that the poverty exists today (I thought the film was depicting 1950/60).

The US should not fear the rise of China. I hope that a multi-polar world will mitigate poverty and terrorism, but it will definitely further environment harm.