Are china going to take over the world?

Fromthetrees

I for one would welcome our new overlords.

Trevor451

inb4 " a great bunch of lads"

Chris P. Bacon

Im looking forward to Eric Cartman comment on this...

Duggy747

We'll know when China has taken over the world when every thread on Boards is spam.

dlofnep

Nah, China hasn't been worth sh*t since Bruce Lee defected to the US. They are puny mortals now.

PK2008

No, their economy is too reliant on low cost manufacturing, their society has many ethnic tensions and their political system is straining under the weight of systemic corruption.

teol

I'm looking forward to the horizontal vaginas

The Internet Explorer

A great bunch of lads.

stovelid

Interesting slant.

Google Gold

Simple answer No. Reason list A. 1- Europe 2- Russia 3- U.S.A. This can be expanded on to make a million reasons why china currently is unable to in anyway willingly take over the Globe.

joshrogan

我欢迎我们的新霸主之一.他们是一群伟大的小伙子

Son Of A Vidic

No and what country has ever taken over the world? Because I have no recollection of it.

Arnold Layne

No, they wouldn't be capable.

I have dealings with Chinese manufacturing companies on a daily basis and I find the engineers to be incompetent and not able to problem solve.

bnt

Not the whole world. Only the bits that have resources useful to them, and then only if it's easy pickings as it currently is in Africa. So Ireland is quite safe, then.

teol

bnt wrote: »

Not the whole world. Only the bits that have resources useful to them, and then only if it's easy pickings as it currently is in Africa. So Ireland is quite safe, then.

Yes, I reckon their new aircraft carrier will spend a lot of its time off the coast of Africa.

Taco Corp

Pinky and The Brain have more chance of taking over the world

Biggins

joshrogan wrote: »

我欢迎我们的新霸主之一.他们是一群伟大的小伙子

小心你希望的东西 - 你可能只是得到它。

4leto

Yes they will, they probably have already.

If the Euro goes pear shaped, they will be our new masters.

They are the ones with the funds and n0-one repeat n0-one can compete with them.

R P McMurphy

Biggins wrote: »

小心你希望的东西 - 你可能只是得到它。

是什么说的？

4leto

How come every one on this thread is suddenly posting in Irish

4leto

hondasam wrote: »

Conas teacht go bhfuil gach ceann ar an snáithe seo a phostú go tobann i nGaeilge

怎么每一个在此线程突然张贴在爱尔兰

Now its Chinese and Irish.

hondasam

4leto wrote: »

Now its Chinese and Irish.

are there any similarities

4leto

hondasam wrote: »

are there any similarities

To a foreign language to English dyslexic they all have the one similarity.

I don't understand them:(

sandmanporto

I hope not!

3ndahalfof6

not a chance, paddy doherty wont let it happen and with jedward backing him up we will take under

Lanaier

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I for one would welcome our new overlords.

http://www.boards.ie/search/?q=%22welcome+our+new%22+chinese

Grats, you're a meme-parrot.
When you develop a personality let us know if you think the Chinese are taking over the world.

Also:

http://www.boards.ie/search/?q=%22great+bunch+of+lads%22+chinese

Hnnngggggghhh

That joke is still hilarious and inventive after 15 years guys, stay classy.

gargleblaster

No.

China has a monster of a real estate bubble.

When that thing goes, it will be interesting to see the fallout.

Lanaier

stovelid wrote: »

Interesting slant.

Really?
You sure they didn't have a slanted view on things?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72543799

Honestly.. it's the 90's on this forum, there are plenty of modern, relevant things to make fun of China with.

But then of course you'd have to think of them yourselves. :mad:

pickarooney

PK2008 wrote: »

No, their economy is too reliant on low cost manufacturing, their society has many ethnic tensions and their political system is straining under the weight of systemic corruption.

I pissed myself laughing reading this as a "non-joke" after all the lame replies.

Lanaier

pickarooney wrote: »

I pissed myself laughing reading this as a "non-joke" after all the lame replies.

He's right though!

Celly Smunt

PK2008 wrote: »

No, their economy is too reliant on low cost manufacturing, their society has many ethnic tensions and their political system is straining under the weight of systemic corruption.

however,militarily....wow.

Bannasidhe

Not if they listen to Bertie they won't - http://www.markgodfrey.eu/publications/update%20290708/Village%20magazine,Bertie%20in%20China,1-05.pdf

Lanaier

gargleblaster wrote: »

No.

China has a monster of a real estate bubble.

When that thing goes, it will be interesting to see the fallout.

Yeah, combined with the increasing political strain and the uneven ratio of men to women there is going to be a large(r) class of extremely unhappy people soon.

I would imagine one of the consequences would be that it's going to get a bit rapey.

Celly Smunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4HIyAk_k6Y

at least we're good at software

RobbieTheRobber

Lanaier wrote: »

Yeah, combined with the increasing political strain and the uneven ratio of men to women there is going to be a large(r) class of extremely unhappy people soon.

I would imagine one of the consequences would be that it's going to get a bit rapey.

Or a lot of trafficking of women from other countires to meet this demand.

Lanaier

pmcmahon wrote: »

however,militarily....wow.

If you mean they have a lot of soldiers, you are right.
There are more formidable forces in the world though.

Celly Smunt

Lanaier wrote: »

If you mean they have a lot of soldiers, you are right.
There are more formidable forces in the world though.

they have a much higher production rate of artillery and birds.

RobbieTheRobber

Lanaier wrote: »

If you mean they have a lot of soldiers, you are right.
There are more formidable forces in the world though.

Mainly the USA, China spends about €80 billion a year on military spending and Ameica spends approx €800 billion in the same time.

Celly Smunt

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Mainly the USA, China spends about €80 billion a year on military spending and Ameica spends approx €800 billion in the same time.

the majority of which is spent on upkeep,higher wages,operations and not as much personnel turn over.

RobbieTheRobber

pmcmahon wrote: »

the majority of which is spent on upkeep,higher wages,operations and not as much personnel turn over.

How much were they paying pakistan?

Quite a lot goes on research the department of defence in the usa is the biggest awardee of SBIR grants imho

Lanaier

pmcmahon wrote: »

they have a much higher production rate of artillery and birds.

Well I'm a total amateur on this subject but wouldn't 1 modern US plane be superior to several older models employed by other countries?
I could be very wrong there

I also assume the US would have far more experienced pilots.

RobbieTheRobber

Lanaier wrote: »

Well I'm a total amateur on this subject but wouldn't 1 modern US plane be superior to several older models employed by other countries?
I could be very wrong there

I also assume the US would have far more experienced pilots.

Yes american technology would be superior to Chinas, is their carrier not a refurbed russian one???

I think i read an article a while back suppossedly from some US defence source who reckons China are 20 years behind and so not militarily a threat to the USA anyway.

Iomega Man

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Yes american technology would be superior to Chinas, is their carrier not a refurbed russian one???

American military technology was Waaay ahead of VC technology too....

RobbieTheRobber

Iomega Man wrote: »

American military technology was Waaay ahead of VC technology too....

I dont think the person in the article i was reading was assumming america would invade china.

Lanaier

Iomega Man wrote: »

American military technology was Waaay ahead of VC technology too....

Indeed and that's one of the reasons the Americans were victorious in pretty much every single encounter with the VC.
The only battle they lost there was political.

Wibbs

4leto wrote: »

Yes they will, they probably have already.

If the Euro goes pear shaped, they will be our new masters.

They are the ones with the funds and n0-one repeat n0-one can compete with them.

Nope. Who do they sell the vast majority of their stuff to? Us and the USA. We go down, they go down. Plus as was noted earlier in the thread they have a well dodgy business model and a very vulnerable one to boot. Culturally they've a race to the bottom mentality and appear to have no word for intellectual copyright. They don't seem to "get" trademarks either. During the "made in Japan" era nearly everyone could name off 5 Japanese companies. Name just one Chinese one of renown. Exclusively "Chinese made" is not a great selling point.

The heavily centralised government and concomitant localised corruption is not too healthy either. China isn't so much a country as an empire. It's terribly monolithic. People sometimes wonder what would have happened in Europe if Rome had never fallen. I say look at China as the example. Brief bursts of innovation followed by long long periods of stasis. When the western powers made inroads into China it was stuck in medieval times. The average Chinese peasant of the 10th century would not be out of place to the average Chinese peasant of the 19th and even today beyond the newly built dreaming spires of the cities, they wouldn't be that far out of place now. Again culturally they've gone from one distant centralised government to another since the foundation of China itself.

Competition? Yea if they keep costs low. That's unsustainable. If their costs go up and they will then they'll look a lot less competitive if Europe and the states start to get more wage realistic. Then look at what they're selling to the world. Yea it may say made in china on the bottom, but the vast majority is designed in the west and most of the money flows back westward too. Then you have the vast hinterlands of peasant farmers who are already causing local trouble. If that reaches critical mass they're in real trouble. They might get through it this time around but I wouldnt be so sure.

pmcmahon wrote: »

however,militarily....wow.

The yanks would rip them a new one. The Russians ditto.

Fromthetrees

Lanaier wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/search/?q=%22welcome+our+new%22+chinese

Grats, you're a meme-parrot.
When you develop a personality let us know if you think the Chinese are taking over the world.

Also:

http://www.boards.ie/search/?q=%22great+bunch+of+lads%22+chinese

Hnnngggggghhh

That joke is still hilarious and inventive after 15 years guys, stay classy.

Jeepers creepers,
it's a Frankie Boyle joke from tv,
a bit like the one on Father Ted from tv,;)
no need to get your knickers in a twist.:rolleyes:
I've also not been on boards that long so wouldn't have spotted it's already been said, it ain't no thing.

cosanostra

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Mainly the USA, China spends about €80 billion a year on military spending and Ameica spends approx €800 billion in the same time.

And that 800billion comes from china who have already told the USA to cut military spending and decrease their deficit!

4leto

4leto wrote: »

Yes they will, they probably have already.

If the Euro goes pear shaped, they will be our new masters.

If they give me an Asimo robot, one of their funny robot pets (of which they have many) and super speed broadband to "sweeten the deal" then I for one welcome our new masters

k.p.h

hellboy99 wrote: »

If they give me an Asimo robot, one of their funny robot pets (of which they have many) and super speed broadband to "sweeten the deal" then I for one welcome our new masters

Asimo is Honda and they are Japanese. Actually all of things you mention are Japanese. China is the place with the wall and where all you Christmas decorations are made ..!!

Buceph

Is china going to take over the world.