The Mighty Chinese

The Mighty Chinese

Is their design, engineering and architecture advanced past the US ? - imagine the mindset of those who worked on this at these heights

Note that the person below is 1102 feet above the ground and is sweeping the dirt off this twenty first century engineering marvel with a broom that was designed centuries ago and has no safety line. Blasting and coating this steel superstructure in a couple of decades will be an interesting project. Aizhai Bridge in Hunan province is 336 m (1,102 ft.) high and has a 1,176 m (3,858 ft.) span.

It connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon from 30 minutes to 1 minute.

Construction took five years.

Work finished at the end of last year, making it the world's longest and highest suspension bridge.

A brave worker put the final touches on the Anzhaite Bridge . The bridge, which connects to two tunnels, was built to ease traffic. Drivers can take in the views of the Dehang Canyon People and traffic during the opening ceremony. Vehicles motor along a two-way, four-lane motorway.

Pedestrians walk along it on a special walkway under the road.

This article, though aimed at a US audience, gives a scary insight into China 's growing economic power.

A Little Known Reality.

June 8, 2013. Source: Michael Snyder, Guest Post

In future China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States . Chinese acquisition of U.S. Businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to shatter that record this year.

The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 U.S. States and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others. But now a Chinese company has bought it for $ 4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America .

Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China , the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.

It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between “the Chinese government” and “Chinese corporations”. In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies where the Chinese government had a controlling interest in.

Last year a Chinese company spent $2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment – one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States . Now that Chinese company controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world.

But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power. “Economic beachheads” are being established all over America ... For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. Recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville , Alabama .. Many of the residents of Thomasville , Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China ...

And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit . Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers. If you recently purchased an “American-made” vehicle, there is a really good chance that it has a number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States .

China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States . For example, China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee . Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. In Jacksboro , Tennessee . At the time, that acquisition really didn’t make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal.

And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the United States just like they have been doing in other countries.Right now China is actually building a city larger than Manhattan just outside Minsk , the capital of Belarus.

Are you starting to get the picture? China is on the rise. If you doubt this, just read the following:

# When you total up all imports and exports, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.

# Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.

# China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.

# China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.

# China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does. After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with Chinese companies.

# China is the number one gold producer in the world.

# The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China .

# 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are made in China .

# The new World Trade Center tower in New York is going to include glass imported from China .

# China now consumes more energy than the United States does.

# China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.

# China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.

# China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.

# China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much steel as the United States does.

# China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.

# China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of any national defense system.

# In published scientific research articles China is expected to become number one in the world very shortly.

And what we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg. For now, I will just leave you with one piece of advice - learn to speak Chinese. You are going to need it !

The article above is of June, 2013.

Just imagine how much more progress the Chinese may have made in the 9 months since the article.

I have said earlier, I am saying it again, we are living in a dangerous world.

The USA is not controlling it urge of spending and rather encouraging it in the hope that their economy would turn around on the FED giving its people cheap money.

The cheap money is not backed by its performance but because the world accepts the US dollar as the reserve currency.

This cheap money is used to buy cheap Chinese goods and the money finds its way to Chinese banks.

The trillions of dollars lying in Chinese banks are being used by the Chinese to buy assets not only in the USA but all over the world and is destabizing the governments in those countries.

The Chinese once entered Tibet without a shot being fired.

It entered India once to teach India a lesson and the Indian defence collapsed.

India was lucky that the Chinese withdrew unilaterally.

The Indian defence is even now no better if the number of accidents in the Indian Navy is any guide. The number of scams being hi-lighted almost every week shows the pathetic condition of Indian forces and Indian government.

Elections are round the corner but the established political parties are still putting scam-tainted and criminal politicians as their candidates.

I see no hope for India unless the AAP comes to power for the rest of them are all corrupt, irrespective of which state we take up.

The Indian government slogan should be changed from "Satyamev Jayate" to "Bhrastamev Jayate"