The Chinese are kidding themselves that they are international players.
Dopey's last post gave the clue where the future is going in our region.The Chinese honey moon is over and as soon as we get off this short sighted mantra of China being a so called world wide economic power house (that means has the maturity and prowess of international market competition)the better we will be.
Wooduk,
The Chinese are international players and the rest of the world better get used to it! And so is Russia, India, Iran and others.
What is clear - the last bastion of the 2 global hegemonies is not agriculture, not technology, not population growth, not military capability, not political ism, but the financial system - i.e, the payment system which can be turned on and off at will.
And this MUST be the priority to all emerging powers if they don't want to be financially raided and raped.
