the whole point of the russian carrier is to learn about aircraft carriers in the first place.
it rising quite fast
they will advance faster than we did with that technology because it is already researched and available illicit or not. once the lead diminishes their technological advancement will slow to more normal levels. they are catching up to current technology, not inventing.
the us is also advancing, but economic and politacal problems are ruining much of it. i think certain programs like drones and cyberwarfare to advance well, but bigger projects that require more investmant and stability (not canceling programs every 2 years) might slow down compared to china.
the soviets and us were comparable in strength for most of the cold war, except for economy. they mostly told people what their jobs were, like the chinese, so maybe they were working around this for that time. people often cite the loss of the cold war as the failing of communism, but here capitalism is failing 20 years later. economic systems are not necessarily a country or civilization. osama knew what he was doing, we wanted america to fail by going after him. and we did and spent all our money.
you thinking of capitalism as what is being currently practiced, neither classical liberalism (laizze fairre) or mixed economy (third way). most of the developed world have state healthcare and do much better than us. most of europe, latin america, asia, middle east, etc. they all have state healthcare. also the world was not in such a state of power shift as it is today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics
also read this. touqerville predicted america and russia being the most powerful countries almost 200 years ago. he also was able to figure out american attitudes fairly easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
those problems effect many countries, including the us, not just china. pollution does not just stay in the country it is made in. also china is starting to handle the pollution problem with much more urgency.
"Near" is a relative term, nor is this an isolated incident, as stated in the article. A better question is how the Chinese might hypothetically respond if situations were reversed and they had all the Naval power. I sincerely doubt they'd limit themselves to surveillance.
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Exactly. And once they learn they'll be where we were a few decades ago.
You're kidding right? China has no clue how to tackle the pollution issue. A mess of that magnitude is going to take DECADES to clean up, assuming they do everything properly which they haven't shown they are capable of doing.
Also, cleaning things up will mean much stronger environmental regulations that will have to be enforced, that will result in far less economic growth and success. Economic growth and success is what the Communist party derives it's legitimacy from, so I can't see them giving that up anytime soon.
The pollution is China is so bad, that much of their soil has now been contaminated, reducing the amount of arable land. How much land has been poisoned is unknown, because the Chinese government is unwilling to release numbers..
But if they're unwilling to release information, then it must be really bad.
Honestly, I feel very sorry for the average Chinese citizen, who are victims of their government's "success at any cost" agenda.. Chinese people love their children just like we love ours, but I would never want to raise a child on Chinese soil given how polluted the land, air and water are..
#1 - learn to edit posts to add to them instead of making post after post.
#2 - Donate to Wikipedia. It's only fair as it makes up 90% of your posts.
#3 - LOL
I am anxiously waiting for a Chinese ship to be sunk by the US Navy. It'll be a wake-up call for them.