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=HAWK'S EYE on CHINA & India=


 * The Week of September 15, 2008

By Eleonore

“A Booming China Spells Trouble for America”**

While China’s economy strengthens, the United States weakens in areas and intensifies in others. While it is the most rapidly growing market for U.S. exports, China is also hundreds of billions of dollars in debt with the United States. It is also using natural resources at an enormous rate and polluting its water and air. The U.S. feels threatened by China’s fortified military, which accidently destroyed one of its own weather satellites last week, because satellite communications are a foundation of the U.S. military. This article was originally published as an oral debate between six informed people on whether or not China is an economic threat to the United States.

John Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago, argued that China would try to dominate Asia the way the United States dominates the western hemisphere, and insisted that a world where the U.S. would have to face a power as strong or almost as strong as itself would be unstable. Bill Gertz, a Washington Post reporter, argues that China’s military is the key threat, noting the accidental destruction of a satellite. Gertz claims China’s military has the capability of destroying all low-flying U.S. satellites, which he says could result in a “space Pearl Harbor.” Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon adviser, comments on China’s unfriendly view of the United States, alluding that this could cause tension between China and the U.S.

On the other side of the argument stands James McGregor, a former chief of the Dow Jones in China, who says that China is too undeveloped to be a serious threat to the U.S. and has been hiding too many problems “under the carpet.” Daniel Rosen, the principal of China Strategic Advisory, bases his opinion on the idea that China is changing too much too quickly for any judgment to be made about their economy, and argues that China is in a better place than it was in 1978, governed by a totalitarian rule. J. Roy, an ambassador to China, also argues that China is under a better government and less likely to be a problem now, but also notes that China can be handled by the United States if it is necessary.

"A Booming China Spells Trouble for America." NPR 23 May 2007 14 Sep 2008.
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 * By Louise**


 * China: School collapses in quake due to flaws**

In the recent earthquake that killed almost 70,000 people, it is now being investigated that the poor construction of schools is what led to such a high death toll. Many of the people killed in the quake were children in school that were crushed by the surrounding school buildings. People are saying that in recent years, China has made a great effort to build an immense number of schools and think that the government spread themselves too thin by trying to accomplish such a daunting task. It is speculated that the government did not put in a sufficient amount of money into each school’s construction, and therefore, the schools construction was poor. This is a global issue because across the globe, governments are giving in to the demands of giving their citizens great educations. The fast growing pace of the world is demanding that more people are educated in order for their government and country to succeed. Governments are building the schools, but not putting in enough money to construct them properly and are ignoring the safety regulations in order to have the school built and have it built cheaply. Across the globe, we are seeing this as an issue, but it’s not until something like 70,000 people are killed as a result of their careless efforts, that it actually gets pointed out.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/earthquakes/sichuan_province_china/index.html
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“China: School collapse in quake due to flaws.” CNN.com/world. 14, September 2008. Cable News Network. 5, September 2008. .
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