There is an interesting theory about world leadership civilization/countries.
Throughout history you can see that mostly (there are exeptions) leadership shifts from East to West:
Mesopotomia, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Eastern Europe (not going to develop or I am not done), UK, USA, Japan, China... India after?
(looks change is faster and faster)
If you check a map this is very striking... and we will soon have made one "loop" around the world.
Correct, just as I stated in my previous post. Industrial development follows the same pattern and just as the US is in its final 25 years of our industrial complex, China is working their way into it. However some underlying factors are not in China's favor since they are artificially inflating their economy, money and manipulating the market for low inflation. China won't survive it's 100 year tenure of the industrial giant due to the aforementioned facts and will crash by 2020. I didn't believe this when my Chinese American economics professor taught us this 20 years ago, but here it is, right in front of us.
I would like to see the US just step away from the world for 5 to 10 years and see what happens on our shores and yours.