Somedays You Get The Bear -- Somedays The Bear Gets You

There were 3 diplomats attending a conference in Asheville, North Carolina:  An American, A Russian, and a Chinese.  Half way through the conference and after lunch, these 3 diplomats found themselves with an afternoon free, so they decided to journey along one of the walking paths near the conference center.  After 30 minutes into their journey, they came across a large open clearing and as they stood their wondering how this might have happened since it was obviously not man-made, a large black bear was on all fours on the other side.  

Just as soon as the black bear started growling, he stood up on his back legs making him a good 8 feet tall...  the Chinese diplomat kneeled down on the ground and started tightening the shoe laces of both his shoes.  Seeing this, the Russian diplomat laughed and looked at the American diplomat who said to the Chinese diplomat, "tightening your shoe laces is not going to help you out run the bear sir."  The Chinese diplomat upon finishing his task stood up and said, "I do not have to out run the bear gentlemen, I just have to out run one of you two."

It is often said that perceptions are different, depending upon where one was raised and where one lives but the perception instinct of survival is paramount in all of us...  or, if not, it should be.

The future of our world largely depends on how these three main countries get along, that is to say, the United States, Russia, and China even though there are many other countries that could form alliances, these 3 countries will control the world and control how it evolves whether the rest of the countries in the world like it or not.

Actually, control of the world will fall between the United States and China as they will have the world's largest economies and the world's largest militaries...   and, it would appear that both these countries are willing to use both if they ever need it.

However, the United States is at a disadvantage...  more so than China because there is a movement growing in the United States to make more services available to the people.  If this movement takes root and grows, monies will be diverted from the economy and the military to provide the people what they are demanding and claim they need.

China does not have this problem and never will because the Chinese people are not of a big concern to the Chinese government.

In essence, the Chinese are in the process of tightening their shoe laces so that they can not only out run Russia but also outrun the United States of America who right now, is their ARCH ENEMY.

The other issue that will soon PLAGUE the United States is their NATIONAL DEBT of which ONE THIRD is owned by China, giving the Chinese the definite CHESS GAME advantage over the Americans.  The US Debt must be paid off at some point-in-time or the USA runs the risk of devaluing the US Dollar which will have devastating short and long term consequences...

Right now, the two political parties that are battling it out for control:  the Republicans and the Democrats are not addressing the DEBT CRISIS at all but rather focusing on GLOBAL WARMING and CLIMATE CHANGE and as they brace themselves to take on that problem, neither party has any concept of how much it will cost...  other than planning on their wealthy citizens to pay for it all.

Again...  this gives the CHINESE a triple advantage...   and, it is just a matter of time, before we see how it actually plays out.