usa - praise where it's due, page-63

govr said:

"if american did not came up with the gobal idea, most of asia including china and india would still be in the poor house."

China and India each has a far far longer and richer history than the American republic. If you cast your eyes and mind back a lot lot longer, you will realise that China was once a rich and powerful nation, same as Great Britain was, and so was the Roman Empire. The difference between the Roman Empire and China is that China will once again become a power and rich state.

The USA, if it does not recapture the spirit that made it a great nation, may go the way of the Roman Empire at worse or at best a much diminished power just like Britain and France are now.