China: Rocky past, regal present, rising future?

China has seen all the different types of political situations. Imperialism, communism, hope, stability, and unstability. Now that China has so wonderfully opened its doors to the world (through the Olympics), what do you think would be the political impact of this event on China and the global society?

officially countries and business will be polite to china while secretly hating them, just like they have for years

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I agree with Steve...China is merely owning the world at the moment by making every countries products for them.

Whoever reads this...what is your country made in...the answer will probably be China.

its not just that, they're the country of counterfeits. what ever you want, you can get it in china. companies can provide their china based factories with blue prints and designs for their products and almost every time the designs get sold on and a duplicate comes out of china at the same time.
on top of this nobody admits it because relations with china are delicate

Do you think that China is still isolated to this day?

they isolate themselves as far as im concerned. they are very careful about keeping their power

Wow, is the Forbidden city still forbidden to foreigners or is it now a museum like I last heard? :o

oh i dont know, ive never heard much about the forbidden city

if it is forbidden then how do we know whats inside ias not a threat? i say we go look

all countries have something that's a threat, the forbidden city isn't about hiding weapons

I think China constitues a certain global power. They are not only one of Security Council's P-5, but also an 'official' nuclear power. This certain event kinds of elevate the country's position. As far as I know, China is a very strong nation and actually stands up to the west.

preid1220 wrote:if it is forbidden then how do we know whats inside ias not a threat? i say we go look

You are right, they probably have WMD...I say once again we become the police of the world and go fix this problem!!

Spoiler:

Weapons of mass destruction...what do you mean by 'fixing this problem'?

Its sarcasm -___- -think Iraq....

Well thanks goodness Pakistan has declared that it has them rather than other nations coming in and 'checking'. By the way, China is strong enough to defend itself easily.

poe thankyou for finding the hidden meaning finaly!

Does the incident with American Olympian in Beijing shows China's poor security arrangemets, or is it just the aura of Americans always being under threat?