China’s Unprecedented Growth

The American public must always keep the following in mind. It was just forty years ago in 1979 that the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping changed the course of history and put China, then a poverty-stricken land, on the path to great wealth and power. Since Deng’s revolution, China’s economy has grown more than tenfold and now is only second to America’s. When Deng took over the Chinese Communist regime its economy was only 10 percent of the American economy.

Today it is well over 80 percent. Other statistics are just as intimidating. China is now the world’s largest exporter and the largest producer of agricultural products. It leads the world in overall industrial production and also has the largest labor force in the world. This rapid economic growth has enabled China to build one of the most powerful armed forces on Earth and there is no end in sight to their global ambitions. To contain China, America will have to muster all of its strength and resolve.