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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2869)	1/4/2006 5:21:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Did you read th piece about de Tocquville? I'm not sure. Which would apparently mean if I did read it I didn't take special notice of it. Tim

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2869)	1/4/2006 8:44:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Also demographics seems to be conspiring to give China an advantage. Which means? If you mean the country with the largest population is economically and militarily dominant, China should have run this planet for decades. China is the new target for educated people to emigrate to. Evidence? China will have a much harder time invading its neighbors than big military powers hae in the past. Talk to Vietnam, India, and Korea about that. Taiwan might need to be more concerned then they currently are about being invaded. I thought you just said China wouldn't be bothering its neighbors. In the 1950's, the rate of increase of the USSR's GDP was faster than that of the US. Eventually they hit a snag: central planning only works up to a point, then it becomes a hindrance, a drag, and requires too much prediction of the unknown and unknowable. It comes unglued. If your population is a geographic hodgepodge of nationalities (as was true of the USSR and is true of China), it comes unglued. Sometimes violently.