15 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind

[bik0]

1.By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.

2.By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.

3.China already consumes twice as much steel as the U.S., Europe and Japan combined.

4.If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as Americans, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet their demand.

5.There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and China is on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world.

6.Chinese are far more likely to believe in evolution than Americans.

7.Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.

8.China has 150 percent more soldiers than America does -- plus a high tech 'Kill Weapon' the U.S. can't deal with.

9.China still hasn't rid itself of Europe's medieval plague.

10.Forty percent of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis.

11.China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED -- and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.

12.China averages 274 protests PER DAY.

13.When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai's top ten stocks are state-controlled arms of the government.

14.Fifty percent of counterfeit goods come from China.

15.The majority of Chinese drink polluted water.

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-facts-about-china-that-will-blow-your-mind-2010-2#by-2030-china-will-add-more-new-city-dwellers-than-the-entire-us-population-2

[Sherman A1]

1. Interesting

Thanks for posting.

[Poll_Blind]

2. "...plus a high tech 'Kill Weapon' the U.S. can't deal with." What?

?

PB

[Birthmark]

3. Almost. The "Kill Weapon" is Pb, not PB. :-) eom

[Poll_Blind]

5. And Cd, from what I read. Leave it to the Chinese to take the term "Eat Lead!" literally. n/t

PB

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Probably talking about that supposed anti-ship missle.

The one that could theoretically take out a super carrier that the Navy doesn't have a counter for.

I think it's speculative, but based on reliable intel.

[Poll_Blind]

6. That's what I was thinking too, but wasn't sure. n/t

PB

[Javaman]

7. And my answer to these 'mind blowing" facts...

If they keep using oil they way that they are, there won't be enough in the world for them to accomplish any of these "mind blowing" facts.

[Javaman]

8. Also: 5 and 6 contradict themselves. nt

[JVS]

10. I wouldn't say they contradict, but 5 could eventually make 6 false.

[Javaman]

13. Better said.

cheers! :)

[Kalyke]

14. Or they can be combined.

All the Christians I know, personally, believe in evolution. They choose to read the Bible as a series of parables rather than a textbook.

Seriously, I live in the South and don't know ANYONE on a personal level who thinks the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

:hi:

[The2ndWheel]

9. Mind blowing would be if China wasn't

building ten NY-sized cities.

[JVS]

11. I'm mind blowingly envious of citizens who drink polluted water and have plague in cities the size..

of New York that are becoming large centers of the Christian faith and who are trying not to get the "high tech kill weapon" used on them!

[lonestarnot]

12. And "the" google and human rights groups having a show down with them at the moment.

[comrade snarky]

15. The USA hasn't rid itself of the "medieval plague" either

Plague entered our country through the port of San Francisco in the late 1800s and hasn't ever been eradicated. Cases crop up every year, mostly in the West. Prairie Dogs are one of the main carriers.

The last big epidemic was in LA during the 20s. Now it can usually be stopped by antibiotics but that doesn't mean an outbreak isn't possible or that it wont be deadly. One doctor I read on the history of the plague in the US said (paraphrased) If you're in the locker room at the gym and you see a rat stumble out from the wall and die, put on your clothes and leave quickly. If you see the dying rat and a person with black lumps under their arms or on their neck... don't stop to put on your clothes.

[stuntcat]

16. number 6!

Every country in the world except Turkey is "more likely to believe in evolution than Americans." !! :patriot:

China starts up a new coalfired power plant every day I think, or every 2 days.. something ridiculous like that :puke: