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Informed Comment: Global Affairs: CHINAS COMING OUT PARTY: Apr 9, 6:11pm 1 review china, us, geopolitics, eu
http://icga.blogspot.com/2008/04/chinas-coming-out-party.html; CHINA'S COMING OUT PARTY in Informed Comment: Global Affairs, by Philip J. Cunningham
And then what? What good can the gratuitous and unthinking humiliation of a trauma-racked nation of 1.3 billion people possibly serve? The antic cheerleading of demonstrations seen in recent weeks, when not outright rude or violent, has the one-sided nature of school spirit, being true to one's school at the expense of others. In trying to bring attention to one set of problems without thinking through the consequences of attention-grabbing shocks, racist chants and media stunts, a whole new set of problems is set into motion. Racially-tinged currents of rejection, betrayal and resentment are surging to the fore in a new, yet wholly unnecessary, confrontation between East and West. CHINA'S COMING OUT PARTY Beware an angry China The Protests, The Olympics, And The Yellow Peril. Excellent, Excellent article. Cunningham is right on the mark. These last few days of what appeared as rejection, in our windows on the world, has the potential to drive us all straight toward a future confrontation between East and West; a wholly unnecessary confrontation that whiteman is bound to lose. The 20th century has illustrated how the capitalistic competition between European "micro-nations" (micro at the scale of the world) could lead to the barbarity of 2 very destructive wars. Today's capitalistic competition is between world-blocs: - China and the larger Confucian area make up over 25% of the world population and are the most successful at the capitalistic game. - Europe and the US barely make up 10% of the world population and are in economic retreat. - Everything indicates that the other nations representing the remaining 65% of the world population, in case of conflict between East and West, would align in their very large majority with China against the West. Is this what we want as an outcome?

The Comeback of the German Dinosaurs: Industry Returns as Economic Engine - Inte…: Feb 12, 1:54pm 1 review economics, eu
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,534811,00.html; Industry Returns as Economic Engine in Germany in Der Spiegel Online by Christian Reiermann
The comeback of German manufacturing contradicts the notion that the future belongs to the service industry. Manufacturing firms are currently the engines of growth in the German economy, even for the service sector. Industry Returns as Economic Engine in Germany We have been bombarded, these last decades, with a vision of the economy where the service sector is preponderant. I've always had difficulties to accept this model. I always thought that services are "at the service" of real productions, that, real productions are the only activities generating a surplus of buying power for a nation. I never understood how it could be possible to generate a national surplus out of services. Real productions are generating goods that can be sold around the world (material or intellectual goods). Most of the services rendered within a country are due by the companies, the citizens, or the institutions of that country. For sure rendering services generates jobs but where, at a national level, does the bulk of the money come from that pays the services? From financial stratagems that eventually collapse... See Financial models head for scrap heap

5 Myths About Sick Old Europe - washingtonpost.com: Oct 6, 2007 12:30pm 2 reviews economics, us, eu, cnina
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR20071005010...; 5 Myths About Sick Old Europe
1. The sclerotic European economy is incapable of leading the world. Who're you calling sclerotic? The European Union's $16 trillion economy has been quietly surging for some time and has emerged as the largest trading bloc in the world, producing nearly a third of the global economy. That's more than the U.S. economy (27 percent) or Japan's (9 percent). Despite all the hype, China is still an economic dwarf, accounting for less than 6 percent of the world's economy. India is smaller still. 2. Nobody wants to invest in European companies and economies because lack of competitiveness makes them a poor bet. Wrong again. Between 2000 and 2005, foreign direct investment in the E.U. 15 was almost half the global total, and investment returns in Europe outperformed those in the United States. ... corporate America is a huge investor in Europe; U.S. companies' affiliates in the E.U. 15 showed profits of $85 billion in 2005, far more than in any other region of the world and 26 times more than the $3.3 billion they made in China. 5 Myths About Sick Old Europe Excellent article redressing many wrong-headed beliefs about the relative economic power of the different big blocs... GDP: - EU: $US 16 trillion (33% of world GDP) - US: $US 13 trillion (27% of world GDP) - Japan: $US 4.3 trillion (9% of world GDP) - China: $US 2.8 trillion (6% of world GDP) Check how the different blocs perform in light of other parameters (FDI, profits of FDI, productivity, inequality, welfare, energy dependence on fossil fuels, climate changing emissions,...) For most of those parameters Europe is occupying the head position...