India and China Are Poised to Share Defining Moment |
| Posted by: h@ts | | Does anyone still doubt that the world is going through seismic changes? The Question is can America remain sole superpower and what will it do to maintain this position?
From the neocon document, PNAC Project for the New Ameriacn Century:
"...the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
"discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." - Paul Wolfowitz
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India and China Are Poised to Share Defining Moment
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: April 10, 2005
NEW DELHI, April 9 - Wen Jiabao, prime minister of China, began a four-day visit to India on Saturday just as the two countries - a third of humanity - are coming into their own at the same moment, with the potential for a dynamic shift in the world's politics and economy.
The impact on the global balance of power, the competition for resources and the health of the planet is causing many analysts and political leaders to sit up and take notice.
"Both countries have waited 3,000 years for this moment," said Gurcharan Das, the former chief executive of Procter & Gamble India and now an author.
Onetime rivals who went to war in 1962, India and China today find their economies growing at a remarkable clip. Both have a giant appetite for energy. Both are hungry for new markets. And both, it seems, are now gingerly testing the possibilities of doing business together.
coninued: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/i...r=rssnyt&pagewa |
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| Posted by: JY_French | | The question remains as to how this world will be able to keep on its track with such destabilizations of raw materials and energy consumptions. Clearly our way of life is challenged. Instead of spending tens of billion dollars in never ending wars, the US should immediatly engage itself in a new industrial revolution, based on the search of a sustainable development, helped in this by other inustrialized countries, notably the european ones. It is highly time, because the rise of China and India can only lead to confrontational rushes to satisfy their ever increasing needs. Time will come very soon when no enough petrol and gas, if not water, will be left for everybody.
And, more, the example should be given by the US in the first place to other countries in matter of sustainable growth.
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| Posted by: adityamahesh | |
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JY_French said this in post #2 :
And, more, the example should be given by the US in the first place to other countries in matter of sustainable growth.
Are all those SUVs drivers conscious of their irresponsibility ? |
In the end, it is all about monnaie. At my University, only now people are making an issue about using public transport and other alternate means instead of driving thier huge beasts. Why? Because the gas prices are rising rapidly. No one cares about the environment or the longevity of the resources. All they care about is their pocket. I would like to see gas cost the same here as it does in Europe and Asia. I wonder how many SUVs would be running then.
M.
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