THERE is no exaggerating China's hunger for commodities. The country accounts for about a fifth of the world's population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world's pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its aluminium. It is spending 35 times as much on imports of soya beans and crude oil as it did in 1999, and 23 times as much importing copper—indeed, China has swallowed over four-fifths of the increase in the world's copper supply since 2000.
source :http://english.people.com.cn/china/images/map11.jpg
Couple of interesting things that these bunch of articles on China seem to suggest :
1. China seems to be gaining economic clout to make or break rogue states. The US influence is being countered.
2. Manufacturing and wealth could spread to Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia. This could have a positive effect on any rise in radical Islam or if its oil that they produce it could just encourage these hooligans.
3. Is a flatter world good because no one will be in position to control rogue states. Can we have multiple super powers who are on friendly terms (atleast agree on taking on rulers in Sudan and Burma) ?
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