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Old 04-15-2008, 10:24 PM   #65
afruff23
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I'm not talking about law. China will not be the next US, and the US will never be removed from the sphere of influence due to GDP spent on the MIC and the proliferation of Americans and American PE in the developing world. Globalization mitigates us, but it also puts a floor in on how far we can fall. The US was probably the last great overwhelming superpower, although the possibility of a pandemic or some kind of massive catastrophe doesn't make it impossible.
GDP is not really a good indicator because it only reflects expenditures rather than production. Back when the economy was in its early blooming, it might have been more accurate but know it holds little basis in our heterogenous dynamic economy.

But anyhow, the US is going to crash. This recession is only the beginning of it.

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What you said just fundamentally makes no sense. Lawyers have little to nothing to do with the human rights situation in China, they aren't set up the way we are judicially and they can't challenge certain issues. The US has nothing to do with it, nothing you said really has anything to do with it.
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Even if these groups of lawyers did have any influence now, it will be gone after China succeeds the US. It'd be like people of Switzerland trying to tell Soviet Russia not to do bad things.

I think we are on the same page here, namely that lawyers in the US have nothing to do with human rights in China.
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