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China’s Impact on the Global Economy: Trade, Energy, and the Environment. April 21, 2012 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org. China’s Rapid Economic Growth.
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China’s Impact on the Global Economy:Trade, Energy, and the Environment April 21, 2012 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.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 capitalfrom 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 ReservesMinus External Debt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.png Based on CIA World Factbook data
GDP PPP per capita World Economic Outlook Database-October 2008, International Monetary Fund http://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
Insatiable Demand for Energy Wall Street Journal
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.