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cdnmatt
China has been quite expansionist over the past few decades especially. China currently owns nearly all of Africa, a good portion of Australia's natural resources, and a host of other corporations and resource deposits across the globe. Granted, they've done all this economically and not militarily, but nonethless, you can't tell me China isn't expansionist.
China's economic expansionism has already been discussed - and agreed - in this thread -
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- 350 million more people to move to the cities,
- 221 Chinese cities of greater than a million people (compared with the 35 in all of Europe today),
- A million kilometres of new roads,
- 28,000 kilometres of new metro-rail,
- 170 mass transit systems (twice the number in all of Europe),
- 1.6 - 1.9 billion square metres of new floor space as part of 5 million new buildings,
- 50,000 new skyscrapers (the equivalent of 2 Chicagos per year),
- 97 new airports,
- And, to fuel the above, 1000 megawatts of additional coal fired generating capacity to be commissioned every week.
- Combined with the new wind power turbine being built every hour and a half