BF2S Forums China Rising - Economic Sleeping Dragon Awakes

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:

They will also have to deal with the fact that their rapid industrialization will/has cause(d) damage to their country which will be hugely expensive and difficult to fix.

Rivers in China are just lulz

Cybargs wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Reciprocity wrote:

I'm not trying to shit on China but as long as their education system utterly rejects creativity and imagination, in favor of rote learning, they will never be innovators, they will never be leaders of industries, they'll just make stuff.

I nearly choked on a pretzel. US education just wants kids to pass state tests to make the districts look good. The only creativity we get taught is with Elmer's Glue and sparkles, unless you count all the mandatory group-think projects where all the load gets foisted off onto one individual per cluster.

US right now is just copy pastaing the chinese system. But at least in US schools you got research essays and shit and you got classes you can choose from. Chinese school is just... GET 100% ON TEST OR YOU WILL FAIL IN LIFE AND LIVE ON STREET.

The classes you choose from are like the turd sandwich vs giant douche election on South Park. Also, the research essays are mostly cookie cutter nonsense copied from busywork methods learned at college.

In high school, I took a number of electives. Astronomy failed (big group projects where you...DREW POSTERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM OMGZ), geology failed (this is a SED-I-MEN-TA-RY rooooock), and biology/chemistry would've been better with some actual lab equipment. Apart from electives, math was a joke because the answer key to every odd question was in the back of the student-issued textbooks, which means all they had to do was get a few wrong on purpose, do a decent job on the evens and streak through with A's on assignments and B's/C's on tests. English spent about the first third of every school year going over the basics (this is a NOOOOUUN), and geography was more of a left-wing political indoctrination course, but not so much as the stealth civics class my guidance counselor suddenly discovered I needed during the last few weeks of 12th grade. Which forced me to attend about one-and-a-half months of grueling liberal blather in an environment hostile to differing opinion.

The only teachers I had that seemed to take their jobs seriously were Spanish (which I promptly forgot out of disuse), local history and the AFJROTC guys. Seriously, the latter was awesome. Tech/military/national history, psychology, economics and aeronautics.

But for all that well-rounded nonsense, a lot of people in America that I by chance talk to randomly are still just DUMB.

/picket fence of text

Total investment overall doesn't mean as much as total investment vs. the size of your economy.

For example, China wields a lot more influence in Australia than in America, because $23 billion in our economy isn't anywhere near as significant to us as $33 billion is to Australia.

To put things in perspective, the total GDP of the U.S. is $14 trillion.  The total GDP of Australia is about $950 billion.

Doing the math, Chinese non-bond investment is equivalent to less than 1% of our GDP, whereas their investment in Australia is equivalent to about 3.5% of Australia's.

Of course, it would also be interesting to see bond investment numbers.