Originally Posted by
Hangarshuffle
Love the patronizing comments on here about China and its shipbuilding.
We used to say the same about Japanese cars around about 1972 when the OK dealership started distributing them. Just before they utterly trounced us at making them and selling them. And they just got better and at it...
19th Century was Britain's and the 20th was the USAs. 21st is China's. So suck it up.
That's an interesting debate. On some accounting the age of empires is compressing and, in main part due due to the one child policy, Chnina compressed it into 2 decades - and is already into the Japanese syndrome of an aging population with no next generation to support them, let alone carry on expansion.
In that theory the rising nation is India, not China.