a ascensão da China

"CHINA will continue to overtake America in all sorts of fields. In 2008 Chinese demand will for the first time become the main driver of world economic growth, with the increase in its domestic spending in current dollar terms contributing more to global growth than American domestic demand. china will overtake America as the country with the largest number of internet users. But there is one crown that America will be glad to lose: China will become the world's largest emiter of greenhouse gases in 2008. However, America's emissions per person are still more than four times China's.
If the share prices in Shangai continue to soar ans more Chinese companies carry out IPO's, it will push China's total stockmarket capitalisation ahead of Japan's and second only to America's. chinese firms will increasingly dominate international corporate rankings. Already, by late 2007, three of the world's six biggest companies by market capitalisation were chinese."

[em The World in 2008, China special edition, da revista The Economist]