Thanks for another article I enjoyed. You proved a point accidentally: sometimes timing is everything! The audience was distracted by the streaker who ran through the crowd yelling insults it found offensive, and everyone pelted off after him rather than paying attention to business.

For a compromise position, how about your point that it will not be safe or sensible to ignore what China will become capable of–eventually–is well taken, but we don’t have to take all their press releases as entirely candid and veracious, either. I’m more inclined to keep a watchful eye on what the new Japanese government is up to. Japan’s shortage of arable land and growing population are more significant than ever, they still aren’t out of their two-decade depression, and (this could be mere prejudice on the part of someone who was a tot living on base when Pearl Harbor was attacked), but I tend to be a little wary when the new anti-USA government starts talking about kicking us off airbases there and confiscating ship yards. “Oh, that’s not what they said. They said it was too much trouble to refuel us.” Um-hmmm. In my lifetime, at least, Japan has had vast armies of “enthusiastic” and rambunctious soldiers, and a navy that, ah, was seen around places like the Coral Sea. Not to be suspicious, or anything, but if I were worried about a very large neighbor flexing his muscles–well, no, I wouldn’t but Japan might very well see the wisdom of an alliance with China for more than mercantile purposes…and a great start on a new deep water Navy would be taking over all the great things Americans have built there. Such useful things, air fields, storage facilities, and dry docks. Well, yes, there was some piddly little treaty that I think forbade taking up arms again, but hey, these old documents, treaties, the Constitution…nobody takes those seriously. Emperor Akihito has only to smile blandly and say that he’s very sorry, but like Elizabeth the Second, his hands are tied because power is vested elsewhere, possibly with those not bound by the treaty. (Aren’t we the ones who foisted a representative democracy on Japan a little over sixty years ago?!) And then the USA will do WHAT? Sue him? Bomb the air fields and ports? Right. I’ll bet we’ll defend Taiwan, too!

Or…we could consider that if BRIC, OPEC, and the EU, possibly with strong collusion from the US government, manage to knock off the dollar, the pandemonium will spread and EVERYBODY will be in far more trouble than the current sufficiency they are in. If we all have to start over even, with reneged on debts and no currency much anyone takes seriously…who has the most toys?

On the other side of the world, however, China is refusing to drink the U.S. Kool-Aid. It sees what’s really happening with the greenback, and understands the implications for its own finances and economic growth.

That’s why Beijing has taken matters into its own hands.

As Beijing breaks with the West, Western investors need to take notice – China is now a serious player on the global financial stage. It’s only going to grow in power and stature. And it has a powerful hand to play.

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His predictions are even coming true, at least the ones he mentions.

I’ve been batting 1,000 myself: less hair, extra pounds, higher dental bills, crank bearing on bike getting louder, and: November was colder than October.

I’m not all that concerned about China. It’s the Americans that get to me. I don’t think he would want me for a client. I’m all tied up with PM’s and extra food.

I think Washington CAN see and acknowledge where the $ is actually headed. They can’t reflate with anything else, can they? They just don’t talk the talk in public, as they walk the liquidity walk.

I don’t give China quite the high probability of unbridled success, either. The numbers don’t lie, but they may be somewhat inscrutable, and not tell all.

I don’t think I’m as optimistic as Mr. Fitz-Gerald about either country, even with the “interconnected world” to support the “US way of life” and “US assets”.

When I’m looking at a Chinese Fire Drill on one hand, and the Keystone Kops on the other, I might as well call a spade a spade.