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...the Glorious USA as Sole Super Power. 3rd time's a charm?? If possible, how can the USA turn things around if there is any way? It seems as if power is shifting to the East while the West, mainly the U.S. and UK, is in serious decline with nothing to look forward too. How will the US be able to compete with the powers of China, India, Russia, Brazil, and the fine peoples of the European Union in the future?!?! Please do reply...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356788/China-worlds-second-biggest-economy-Japan-falls-40-years.html
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The People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, is the most populous state in the world with over 1.3 billion people. Located in East Asia, it is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC). The PRC exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four directly administered municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two highly autonomous special administrative regions (SARs) â Hong Kong and Macau. Its capital city is Beijing.
At about 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), the PRC is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the definition of what is included in that total, and the second largest by land area. Its landscape is diverse, with forest steppes and deserts (the Gobi and Taklamakan) in the dry north near Mongolia and Russia's Siberia, and subtropical forests in the wet south close to Vietnam, Laos, and Burma. The terrain in the west is rugged and elevated, with the Himalayas and the Tian Shan mountain ranges forming China's natural borders with India, Nepal and Central Asia. In contrast, mainland China's eastern seaboard is low-lying and has a 14,500-kilometre (9,000 mi) long coastline bounded on the southeast by the South China Sea and on the east by the East China Sea, beyond which lie Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
The ancient Chinese civilizationâone of the world's earliestâflourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River which flows through the North China Plain. For more than 6,000 years, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies (also known as dynasties). The first of these dynasties was the Xia (approx. 2000 BC) but it was the later Qin Dynasty that first unified China in 221 BC. The last dynasty, the Qing, ended in 1911 with the founding of the Republic of China (ROC) by the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party. The first half of the 20th century saw China plunged into a period of disunity and civil wars that divided the country into two main political camps â the Kuomintang and the communists. Major hostilities ended in 1949, when the communists won the civil war and established the People's Republic of China in mainland China. The KMT-led Republic of China relocated their capital to Taipei on Taiwan; its jurisdiction is now limited to Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu and several outlying islands. Since then, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been involved in political disputes with the Republic of China over issues of sovereignty and the political status of Taiwan.
Since the introduction of market-based economic reforms in 1978, China has become the world's fastest growing major economy, the world's largest exporter and second largest importer of goods. It is the world's second largest economy by both nominal GDP and purchasing power parity (PPP) and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It is also a member of formal/informal multilateral organizations including the WTO, APEC, BRIC, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and G-20. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army with the second-largest defense budget. China has been characterized as a potential superpower by a number of academics, military analysts, and public policy and economics analysts.
The People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, is the most populous state in the world with over 1.3 billion people. Located in East Asia, it is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC). The PRC exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four directly administered municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two highly autonomous special administrative regions (SARs) â Hong Kong and Macau. Its capital city is Beijing.
At about 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), the PRC is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the definition of what is included in that total, and the second largest by land area. Its landscape is diverse, with forest steppes and deserts (the Gobi and Taklamakan) in the dry north near Mongolia and Russia's Siberia, and subtropical forests in the wet south close to Vietnam, Laos, and Burma. The terrain in the west is rugged and elevated, with the Himalayas and the Tian Shan mountain ranges forming China's natural borders with India, Nepal and Central Asia. In contrast, mainland China's eastern seaboard is low-lying and has a 14,500-kilometre (9,000 mi) long coastline bounded on the southeast by the South China Sea and on the east by the East China Sea, beyond which lie Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
The ancient Chinese civilizationâone of the world's earliestâflourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River which flows through the North China Plain. For more than 6,000 years, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies (also known as dynasties). The first of these dynasties was the Xia (approx. 2000 BC) but it was the later Qin Dynasty that first unified China in 221 BC. The last dynasty, the Qing, ended in 1911 with the founding of the Republic of China (ROC) by the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party. The first half of the 20th century saw China plunged into a period of disunity and civil wars that divided the country into two main political camps â the Kuomintang and the communists. Major hostilities ended in 1949, when the communists won the civil war and established the People's Republic of China in mainland China. The KMT-led Republic of China relocated their capital to Taipei on Taiwan; its jurisdiction is now limited to Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu and several outlying islands. Since then, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been involved in political disputes with the Republic of China over issues of sovereignty and the political status of Taiwan.
Since the introduction of market-based economic reforms in 1978, China has become the world's fastest growing major economy, the world's largest exporter and second largest importer of goods. It is the world's second largest economy by both nominal GDP and purchasing power parity (PPP) and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It is also a member of formal/informal multilateral organizations including the WTO, APEC, BRIC, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and G-20. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army with the second-largest defense budget. China has been characterized as a potential superpower by a number of academics, military analysts, and public policy and economics analysts.
Advance weather forecast for Southern California in March 2010?
John
We are going to LA on 6 March 10 for two and a half weeks; what with the recent impacts of El Nino on the weather there (rain, rain and more rain!), we are concerned (but not overly we will still enjoy it hugely) that itll be a wash out.
Seeing as it has been wet now for a good 6 weeks and counting, is there a good chance it may dry out in time for our trip? I note the latest forecast shows the storms taking a more Northerly track for the next week, could this hopefully now be the shape of things to come?
Any expertise would be greatly appreciated!
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Well, the bad news is that we are in an El Nino pattern which does bring more storms to southern California as you have observed. This trend is expected to continue through the period of your trip. However, I would not consider it a wash out. Even if there are storms that may last a day or two and there could be several, there would be plenty of good days as well in a two and a half week period. It is unlikely that it would be warm and pleasant the entire time so you may want to be flexible on when you do things and use the good days for outdoor activities and indoor stuff for days when it is not so good. These storms are not too difficult to forecast out a couple of days so just pay attention to the local forecast on when a inclement period may coming up.
You can read the latest on the pattern at:
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml
Have a good, safe trip.
Well, the bad news is that we are in an El Nino pattern which does bring more storms to southern California as you have observed. This trend is expected to continue through the period of your trip. However, I would not consider it a wash out. Even if there are storms that may last a day or two and there could be several, there would be plenty of good days as well in a two and a half week period. It is unlikely that it would be warm and pleasant the entire time so you may want to be flexible on when you do things and use the good days for outdoor activities and indoor stuff for days when it is not so good. These storms are not too difficult to forecast out a couple of days so just pay attention to the local forecast on when a inclement period may coming up.
You can read the latest on the pattern at:
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml
Have a good, safe trip.
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