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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KyrosL who wrote (125641)3/5/2004 6:53:09 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
China and India already graduate more engineers and scientists than the US, and their students' study and work habits are much better than those of US students. Don't be surprised if we lose our "knowldege age" advantage a lot faster than we lost our industrial age one.

If China and India develop the per person industrial and knowledge/technology ability that the US has (something that will take a long time but could eventually happen) that will mean a relative decline of the US but not an absolute decline. Americans will be even wealthier, and all of the goods and services that would be produced by the over 2 billion (maybe over 3 by then) Chinese and Indians if they where as productive as we where would help make the world better off.

But China and India have a long way to go to be as productive as the US. Assuming I live to a ripe old age I could imagine that in my lifetime one or both of them could produce more in total then the US but they would still probably produce less per person.

Tim
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