Pretty interesting stuff, this…
15 Facts about China that will blow your mind
- By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities
- By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population
- China already consumes twice as much steel as the US, Europe and Japan combined
- If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as Americans, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet their demand
- There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and China is on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world
- Chinese are far more likely to believe in evolution than Americans
- Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans
- China has 150% more soldiers than America does, plus a high tech ‘Kill Weapon’ the U.S. can’t deal with
- China still hasn’t rid itself of Europe’s medieval plague
- 40% of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis
- China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED… and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency
- China averages 274 protests PER DAY
- When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai’s top ten stocks are state-controlled arms of the government
- 50% of counterfeit goods come from China
- The majority of Chinese drink polluted water
- Bonus: Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. as soon as the early 2020s
