Obama is making the Americans work for China!

[Louis VI the Fat]

As for China, I for one, welcome our autocratic, arrogant, bullying new global overlords.


Duh. Not.


Let's pray India, Brazil / South America, Turkey, Russia, Iran etc will continue their economic ascencion, while developing / adopting democracy and the rule of law. At least a majority of them.

Then again, wishful thinking for the most part. Much of the world can't wait to teach the arrogant West a lesson or two. What from the perspective of the West is considered globalisation, is for many outside the West a global struggle for supremacy, one that they feel they are gaining the upper hand in. They're loving it. They don't understand, or wish to accept, that from the perspective of the West there is no power struggle, that the West is not trying to keep them down. They think the West is stupid, that the West is being outwitted time and again despite its bid to retain supremacy.

Alas. Things could get lonely this century, it sucks to be a democracy that's outnumbered and outpowered by autocracies. I had hoped to have left that behind in the 1930's.
Only America can make the world save for democracy.

Help us, Obama-Wan, you're our only hope!

[Jolt]

Alas. Things could get lonely this century, it sucks to be a democracy that's outnumbered and outpowered by autocracies. I had hoped to have left that behind in the 1930's.
Only America can make the world save for democracy.

Maybe it's time Japan goes at it again in China?

[Hax]

A western-style democracy in Iran? Yes, please. I want to see Isfahan for myself..