China’s Impact on the Global Economy:Trade, Energy, and the Environment
April 21, 2012Robert KaulfussProfessor of EconomicsMiddlesex Community CollegeBeyondEconomics.org
China’s Rapid Economic Growth
http://seekingalpha.com/article/173265-chinese-exports-can-emerging-markets-replace-the-u-s-consumer
China’s Growing Dominance?
Weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capital from Arvind Subramanian's “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance”
Comparing Growth: U.S., India, & China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456964/html/nn1page1.stm
Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.pngBased on CIA World Factbook data
GDP PPP per capita
World Economic Outlook Database-October 2008, International Monetary Fundhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_PPP_per_capita_2007_IMF.png
Demographics
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456964/html/nn1page1.stm
China Adopts Fast Food
China Adopts the Car Culture
Insatiable Demand for Energy
Wall Street Journal
U.S. Energy Sources
Biggest Contributor to CO2
CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)
Arctic Summer Minimum& Greenland Ice Melt•
Surging Demand for Oil
The Nominal Price of More Oil
Peak Oil: Worst Case
Oil Prices & Recessions
Their Moonshot and OursThomas Friedman, 9/25/2010
China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars.
Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.
We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda. Let’s start with electric cars.
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