This is how a Financier in China sees things

[volpunter]

you can't be serious...almost anything you eat (though to a lesser degree than others that follow), wear, use at work, use in your leasure time, your car, your house, your everything is made of Chinese ingredients or finished products.

China's economy is slowing and the powerful and greedy and trying to gain control of resources out of the country alienating their trading partners. China will continue to slow until you get to a critical point where either the government is overthrown or China becomes its traditional isolated self.

 

[xandman]

China's economy is slowing and the powerful and greedy and trying to gain control of resources out of the country alienating their trading partners. China will continue to slow until you get to a critical point where either the government is overthrown or China becomes its traditional isolated self.

China is not as developed as the US with it's numerous trading partners and power to enforce trading relationships. Given China's actual importance in producing goods that we all use, they really do have to stockpile. Commodity shortages would produce much more damage in a less diversified economy.

As for the US, we actually have a 50 year oil reserve. As if we weren't a ("the"?) top exporter of oil already along with several key commodities. Who the heck in America eats soybeans or ginseng root?

Also, the key Chinese industries that serve the world are very dependent on commodity inputs. Compare that to the US's service based industries.

 

[xandman]

not sure what you are alluding to but yes, American dominance will eventually come to an end and the new super power for at least many decades will be China. The US will not trail behind by too much (unlike what has happened to the UK) due to its innovative spirit and "can-do" attitude.

Hopefully, not while I'm around. Deep inside, I am still a flag-waving face-painter.

 

[Beyondbreakeventrading]

In history, everything changes, all at once, all over the world. This game is rapidly changing and I don't pretend to know what the heck the next cycle is going to look like. If history is any lesson, you can't project America's decline or China's rise out into the future. I'd be surprised if there were only one America or one China 50 years from now.