This article from a few weeks ago summarizes some interesting views and perspectives on the possible global effects of these trends:
Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs
QUOTE:
This new world order will be characterized by fierce international competition for dwindling stocks of oil, natural gas, coal and uranium, as well as by a tidal shift in power and wealth from energy-deficit states like China, Japan and the United States to energy-surplus states like Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In the process, the lives of everyone will be affected in one way or another - with poor and middle-class consumers in the energy-deficit states experiencing the harshest effects…Here, in a nutshell, are five key forces in this new world order which will change our planet:
• Intense competition between older and newer economic powers for available supplies of energy.
• The insufficiency of primary energy supplies.
• The painfully slow development of energy alternatives.
• A steady migration of power and wealth from energy-deficit to energy-surplus nations:
• A growing risk of conflict.
Pretty much another way of covering the same ground as Corey … but without the call for a boycott!!
Related report from China (so, its not BBC bias!
):
RTÉ News China
Unfortunately, some elements in China may also be the #1 spammer as well, at least in so far as the automated spam-bots that have been an increasing trend on some message boards.
. Somehow they now manage to by-pass the registration security features like the distorted characters that we are asked to insert.
. I suppose that trend of spam-bots is in some ways related to both “outsourcing” and “pollution” – the people offering the dubious products and services often seem to be from countries other than the spammers' IP addresses, and further to this, the multiple posting (by the spam-bots) of meaningless and irrelevant threads and replies on other people’s legitimate boards can probably be considered as
pollution of forums!!!