“When China Rules the World, The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order” focuses attention on the world of 2050, the world of our children and grandchildren. With the rapid development of China, India and Brazil and their areas of hegemony, the world’s great economies will likely be in the following order: China, India and the United States, Europe, then Japan and Brazil.
With China in ascendancy and India its most likely rival, the USA standing by itself will be dwarfed in economic and military power due to its relatively small population and internal market, subject to a world economy controlled largely by others.
Consider the following approximate current populations:
China 1,342,000,000
India 1, 130,000,000
Brazil 190,000,000
Europe 731,000,000
Japan 127,000,000
USA 311,000,000,
Mexico 111,000,000,
Canada 34,000,000
In order to counter the captive market place and economic size of China and India, the USA might be much better serve to have united with Canada and Mexico, thus bringing its population in 2010 numbers to 456,000,000. Furthermore, an open door population policy with our neighbor to the south and other Latino countries would halt the decline in domestic birth rate and enable population to grow in parallel with the other major powers of the world.
Another approach is to think of the Western World – Europe plus the USA, Mexico and Canada as a single entity. 731,000,000 plus 456,000,000 comes to 1,187,000,000, a market and alliance that is roughly the size of China and India.
A major factor for consideration is the worldwide natural resources consumed by lifting billions from poverty to a middle class standard. China is resource poor but has spent a decade in acquiring trading alliances and ownership rights to commodities throughout Africa, South America and elsewhere in recognition of its future needs. On the other hand, much of the USA’s resources have been depleted. It is Canada that is resource rich.
While the Chinese have shown amazing foresight and discipline in developing its nation since 1978, the United States has careened from folly to folly, squandering its wealth on a military industrial complex, an exorbitant health care system, and economically suppressing its middle class in favor of the top half of one percent of its population. In contrast to China, India, Brazil and others, U. S. slow growth seems destined for at least several years and perhaps for decades unless corrective actions are taken, which seem so unlikely.
With the future in mind, open borders or even a merger with our neighbors both north and south and a close economic alliance with Europe may be the single best thing we can do on behalf of future generations.
